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INDEX 


Analysis of Man_ 1 

The Body and Brain_ 14 

The Spirit Operating* the Body___^_ 17 

The Material Mind of Man_ 19 

The Soul of Man_22 

The Soul Mind of Man_ 26 

Making the Application_31 

Being Your Own Master_45 

Sane ____65 

Psychic Healing_,_84 

Now and Then_ 103 

How to Make Good_112 

Character Reading_137 


Copyright 1922 
By 

DR. JOHN THOMAS SCOTT 

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PREFACE 


This book has been written to be used as a 
text-book by the Oklahoma City School of Psy¬ 
chology both in its classes of personal instruction 
and in its Correspondence course of Psychology. 

I have endeavored to give the public some¬ 
thing new, which I hope will shed at least some 
light to its readers upon the vital questions in the 
study of Psychology. Whether I have succeeded 
in my task I request that you sit in judgment. 


January 3, 1922. 



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JUN 22 1922 




Analysis of Man 

A knowledge of the human being is the most 
important study of Psychology, because every 
psychic manifestation emanating from a human 
being is a normal product of that being. 

Everything produced by a human being is 
normal to the one producing it. If the mind of 
a person is capable of producing a certain condi¬ 
tion which to others looks impossible, regardless 
of their inability to understand it, yet it is nor¬ 
mal to the mind of the one producing it. 

In the study of Psychology, it is necessary 
that we have a working knowledge of the nature 
and inclinaton of human beings. Before we can 
accomplish this, we must have a knowledge of 
the instrument, its composition, the relation each 
part sustains to every other part of the instru¬ 
ment. To do this, we must analyze a human be¬ 
ing and determine the composition of each part, 
its relationship to all the other parts, the office 
it fills in every act performed by a human being 
otherwise we shall never be able to arrive at an 
intelligent understanding of our subject. A scien¬ 
tific solution of these things is absolutely neces¬ 
sary in the study of Psychology, as the human 
being is the only being in the material universe 


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capable of producing psychic manifestations of 
any nature, and is the only being capable of solv¬ 
ing them. 

When we speak of the study of Psychology, 
we exclude everything else in the material uni¬ 
verse, except human beings. They possess all 
the elements entering into Psychology. We main¬ 
tain that this is the only scientific method to use 
in reaching a solution of this subject. I main¬ 
tain that this is the scientific method by which 
this question can be solved. When we eliminate 
the human being from our study, we will destroy 
the foundation upon which Psychology can be 
demonstrated. 


HUMAN 

Belonging to man or mankind; pertaining or 
relating to the race of man; as a human voice; 
human shape; human nature; human knowledge; 
human life. Having the qualities of a man. Pro¬ 
fane ; not sacred or divine. 

A being superior to all other beings; occupy¬ 
ing a plane of life peculiarly his own, which has 
never been questioned by any other living crea¬ 
ture exisiting. 


NATURE 

The essence, essential qualities, or attri¬ 
butes of a thing, which constitutes it what it is, 
as, the nature of the soul, body or mind. 


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HUMAN NATURE 

The essential qualities, or attributes of a 
man which constitute him a human being; sep¬ 
arate and apart from all other living creatures 
on earth. 

Human beings are the only creatures pos¬ 
sessing a nature called human nature. In our 
study of the human body, our purpose will be to 
establish our identity and ascertain how we dif¬ 
fer from all other living creatures in tissue, form, 
action, inclination and intelligence, being capa¬ 
ble of reasoning upon questions of vital impor¬ 
tance relative to this life and our future life. 

Without an understanding of these princi¬ 
ples, we should be hopelessly lost in the study of 
Psychology, because we are the only beings com¬ 
posed of tissue capable of possessing a soul. 
While we believe all other living creatures pos¬ 
sess something that serves the same purpose to 
them that the soul of man does to man, but do 
not possess that intelligence peculiar to the hu¬ 
man being, giving him the power and supremacy 
over the entire material universe. 

It is necessary that we divide this analysis 
into five subjects, to enable us to arrive at a 
scientific solution of it and free our minds of the 
mysterious problems relative to the nature, pur¬ 
pose and possibilities of man. 

If we classify our subjects properly and ex¬ 
amine them carefully, with no other thought in 


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mind than to reach a correct scientific solution of 
this great and important factor in the study of 
Psychology, we shall reach a correct understand¬ 
ing of our subject. 

The human being is the foundation of Psy¬ 
chology ; no other living creature would be of any 
assistance to us in the study of this subject. The 
human being is the first and last word in Psy¬ 
chology. 

All who try to obtain it in any other way will 
fail to find it. If you want to find a thing, you 
must look for it where it is. There is no instru¬ 
ment in existence, or will ever exist in this mater¬ 
ial universe, that has the intelligence to operate 
itself, neither can it operate without a physical 
basis from which to operate. It is beyond the 
power, of human mind to comprehend an instru¬ 
ment that can be operated without a physical 
basis. This is the reason why so many have 
failed to solve the problems of Psychology. They 
all seem to think that the top of the subject is the 
place to start, and in doing so they are never able 
to touch their feet to this terrestrial sphere. They 
are completely “in the air” at all times with no 
assurance as to where they are or where they are 
going. They are at sea without chart or com¬ 
pass. When they shall have learned that the in¬ 
strument producing these wonderful psychic 
phenomena has a physical basis and that basis is 
the human brain, the mysteries they have so long 


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encountered, will fade away and Psychology shall 
have a new meaning to them. This is the reason 
why it is necessary that we must have at least a 
working knowledge of the body and brain of a 
human being, because they are the instruments 
through which all human intelligence is mani¬ 
fested. The eyes, ears, nose, taste and the sense 
of feeling are all parts of this instrument and are 
indispensable to the study of Psychology. 

In our study of the human being we are 
building a ladder that will reach the unlimited. 
We shall unfold these subjects step by step until 
we reach the door to the unlimited and I shall 
give you the key that will unlock the door and 
put you in touch with the unlimited, but remem¬ 
ber, we must start at the bottom of this subject. 
We must take the first step of the ladder before 
we can take the last one. We hope to be able to 
go with you step by step until we reach the top. 

We shall divide our subjects as follows: 

1. The Human Body and Brain. 

2. The Spirit Operating the Body. 

3. The Soul of Man. 

4. The Material Mind of Man. 

5. The Soul Mind of Man. 

We shall take each of these subjects sepa¬ 
rately and analyze it carefully with no other pur¬ 
pose in view than to reach a correct scientific so¬ 
lution of each one, which will enable us to apply 
it to every human being and see the beauty and 


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simplicity in the study of Psychology. 

The body and brain of a human being serves 
as an instrument through which intelligence is 
transmitted. It is composed of bone, ligament, 
muscle and brain tissue; all of which is scientific¬ 
ally arranged so that each performs its work in 
harmony with each part of the body and brain, 
neither of them possesses life, power or intelli¬ 
gence within themselves. They are all operated 
by an intelligence which exists separate and 
apart from the body and brain. 

The body and brain is purely an instrument 
just the same as a steam engine is an instrument. 
The engine cannot apply the power, (steam) to 
itself to operate itself, neither can the body and 
brain of man apply the power, (spirit) to them 
to operate them. In the absence of the steam, 
the engine is dead; in the absence of the spirit, 
the body is dead. When we have the various 
parts of the body and brain alone, all perfectly ar¬ 
ranged in the absence of the soul and spirit, they 
are powerless to act within themselves. 

So we are forced to conclude that the body 
and brain of a human being does not possess life, 
power, energy and intelligence within them¬ 
selves. They must all be applied in order to have 
a living, moving human being. 

The only way this question can be settled 
scientifically, is to analyze the entire composition 
man, and from this analysis determine the re- 


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lationship each part sustains to man as a whole. 
This can only be done by making a proper divis¬ 
ion of man and keep each part entirely separate 
until we can determine accurately the scientific 
purpose of each part. With an unbiased mind 
this can be unfolded by the same rule that all oth¬ 
er questions of importance are solved. 

The thing of which we desire a knowledge 
contains within itself the information of which 
we are in search. This being scientifically true, 
we can get all the facts as to the evolution of 
man, from man. It would be a waste of time and 
energy to try to settle the origin and nature of 
man by any other object or being. 

If you want to gain a knowledge of the hu¬ 
man being, you must go to the human for that 
knowledge. If you understand the human being 
sufficiently to know of what he is composed 
you are ready to proceed intelligently as to what 
that being can perform. 

In the study of Psychology, it is necessary 
for us to consider the human being as a whole. 
There is no part of his being that we can leave 
out and arrive at a solution of the subject. It is 
necessary that we find the harmony existing 
throughout the entire being or our effort will be 
a failure. We must find the harmony between 
each part; the relationship that each part sustains 
to every other part of the entire being. When 
we can do this, we will have solved the problem 


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of Psychology. 

In the absence of the brain, the material 
mind would have no field in which to live and 
operate. In the absence of the body, there would 
be no instrument through which Psychology 
could be transmitted to the outside world, neith¬ 
er would there be an instrument to receive the 
scientific solutions of the science of the soul. The 
spirit would have no definite abiding place to ex¬ 
ercise its power of motion. The soul would have 
no medium through which to impart its intelli¬ 
gence; in other words, the study of Psychology 
would be a failure. When you dispose of the 
body and brain of a human being, you will have 
removed the instrument by and through which 
the soul makes known its science to the world. If 
it were possible for it to reveal it without the 
body and brain, then it would be foolish to bur¬ 
den it with them. 

I must confess that my reverence for the Su¬ 
preme Being is such that I could not accuse Him 
of a foolish act. In order to give Him all due 
reverence, I am compelled to say that all intelli¬ 
gence reaching us in this material state of exis¬ 
tence, must come by the aid of our material in¬ 
strument and the instrument from which this in¬ 
telligence is transmitted to us must be of the 
same nature and kind of our instrument, other¬ 
wise we would not be in tune with it. 

All material instruments receiving and trans- 


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mitting messages to and from each other must be 
of the same nature and kind, otherwise our ef¬ 
forts to get them in tune would be a failure. 
“Things that are equal to each other, are equal 
to the same thing.” On this, rests the scientific 
solution of all questions, great or small. 

The study of Psychology is one of the most 
far-reaching propositions with which we have to 
deal and I presume it is the least understood of 
any question today. There have been more nice 
things said about it than almost any other sub¬ 
ject. The imagination of people has been work¬ 
ing overtime for years with very little real infor¬ 
mation that is satisfying to the minds of those 
who are in search of the facts relative to its basic 
principles. The human minds today are not sat¬ 
isfied on this question. It is the most fascinat¬ 
ing subject that we have to deal with. It re¬ 
quires a great deal of care and patience in un¬ 
folding the facts connected with it, to avoid the 
stumbling blocks that have caused the downfall 
of those who have gone before us. It has been 
abused more than almost any other subject ex¬ 
cept religion, which has been divided and sub-di¬ 
vided until whatever a person believes and prac¬ 
tices, is his religion. They have gone so far that 
they have lost sight of the true meaning of re¬ 
ligion. 

Unless there is a difference made between 
real and imaginary Psychology, it will soon lose 


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its identity as a science. It is our purpose in this 
work to get you away from phantom chasing, 
back to the basic principles of the science and 
give you a real foundation to build upon and help 
you step by step until you are able to see the 
beauty and simplicity of Psychology. 

While the soul is not dependent upon the 
body, brain or material mind for its existence, 
yet it is dependent upon them when giving its in¬ 
telligence to those who have these mediums of 
communication because all messages have their 
origin in the material mind of some one, or your 
instrument would not be in tune with it. 

You cannot put two instruments in tune with 
each other when they differ in nature and kind. 
You have no means of reaching your soul mind 
except through your material mind, neither can 
your material mind receive a message that did not 
have as its origin in the material mind of some 
one else. The material mind has no existence in¬ 
dependent of the brain. It has no other purpose 
to serve after your material existence has ended. 
It is evolved in the brain. When the brain dis¬ 
solves and goes back to the earth whence it 
came, the material mind ceases to exist. It is a 
part of the material being and partakes of the 
same nature that the body and brain does. That 
is the reason why I call it the material mind. It 
sustains the same relation to the brain and soul 
mind as the spirit does to the body and soul. It 


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is the connecting link between the two. 

When the brain ceases, the material mind 
cannot exist because it is a function of the brain. 
This being true, it cannot formulate a message 
of any nature, no more than a wireless machine 
can receive and transmit a message after it has 
been melted and taken back to its original form 
of existence. This, you understand, ends its use¬ 
fulness as an instrument. The same thing oc¬ 
curs with the material mind which ends its work 
of receiving and transmitting messages. 

It is different with the soul mind. It is in 
telepathic communication with all other soul 
minds, but it cannot transmit a message to the 
material mind that it did not receive from a ma¬ 
terial mind, because your material mind is not in 
tune to receive it. 

Your material mind is in tune with every 
other material mind in the material universe and 
can receive telepathic messages from them, but 
you will have to change the nature of your in¬ 
strument before you will be able to penetrate be¬ 
yond that. 

When I penetrate the unknown, I am going 
to make it the last thing that I do, because I am 
not coming back to write any books on Psychol¬ 
ogy. I would not come back, if I could, neither 
could I come back if I would. 

The soul preserves our identity after we 
cross the great wall of thought. All of our know- 


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ledge and purposes of this life are stored away 
by the soul mind and carefully guarded and pre¬ 
served for future reference. The soul is in no 
way dependent upon the body and brain for its ex¬ 
istence and power to operate. 

The brain is capable of supplying a field 
sufficient for our material mind to develop all of 
the principles of Psychology needed by us in ev¬ 
ery line of work that the human being is capable 
of mastering. If we were able to go beyond this, 
we would be unable to apply it. However, we 
will leave that work for those who are able to 
draw on their imagination to see and tell things 
that do not, and cannot exist. 

I am interested only in the things that can 
benefit us in our daily life, in making us happier 
and better. When we succeed in unfolding the 
principles of Psychology that will bring about 
these results, we will be satisfied with our scien¬ 
tific research. 

Suppose you should gain a perfect know¬ 
ledge of the human body together with all of its 
systems and organs and their functions, if you 
were not able to evolve beyond this you would 
be doomed to be a materialist all the days of your 
life. If you could evolve one step higher and 
solve the purpose and functions of the spirit, and 
you were not able to continue your evolution, you 
would be a materialist still, without one ray of 
hope of a future life, because there would be no- 


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thing in which to preserve your identity. In 
reality you would have no identity to preserve, 
as intelligence does not emanate from the body 
or spirit. You would be like the engine with a 
full head of steam, with no intelligence to apply 
the steam to the engine to operate it. 

If we have the soul and spirit only and no 
body for them to dwell in, then there would be no 
channel through which they could make their ex¬ 
istence known. In the absence of either of the 
three we would have no living human being. In 
order to have this, we must have intelligence, 
power and instrument. In the soul we have the 
intelligence, in the spirit we have the power, in 
the body, we have the instrument. Then we have 
entering into the composition of the human be¬ 
ing, a soul, body and spirit together with their 
functions, all being absolutely indispensable in a 
normal man. 

The primary source of all things is life, pow¬ 
er, energy and intelligence. When you have 
gained a knowledge of the soul, body and spirit 
you have prepared yourself to enter the field of 
psychic research intelligently. 


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THE BODY AND BRAIN 

Human tissue differs in nature and kind 
from all other tissue, being the finest tissue 
known in the realms of the material universe. It 
is the finest tissue that can be produced by a 
chemical comjpound; it borders on the threshold 
of perfection. 

The intercellular substance in man differs in 
its nature and kind from all other intercellular 
substances and as intercellular substance is the 
basis of all tissue and out of it all tissue evolves, 
and as the intercellular substance in man has nev¬ 
er produced any other kind of tissue differing 
from human tissue, then we are forced to the con¬ 
clusion that no other living creature possesses 
the same kind of intercellular substance possess¬ 
ed by man. The reason why this is true is be¬ 
cause man must be composed of the peculiar kind 
of tissue that can be blended with the soul, with 
the spirit intervening between them to blend 
them together, making him a human being com¬ 
posed of Soul, Body and Spirit. 

In the absence of the soul, we should have 
no Psychology. In the absence of human tissue, 
we should have no body for the soul to dwell in. 

Perhaps it has never dawned upon you be¬ 
fore, the important place the human body fills in 
the study of Psychology. 

It is impossible for a man to develop every 
avenue in his brain; the average man will have 


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all the way from fifteen to twenty avenues de¬ 
veloped. These avenues are always active and 
are responsible for everything you do. The only 
way you can change a man is to cause him to 
think on another line of thought. This will 
evolve or develop another convolution. When 
the avenue becomes active it will counteract some 
other avenue differing in nature from it. The 
greater th: development of the brain, the greater 
the power to accomplish a thing. If every ave¬ 
nue of the brain was developed man would be ab¬ 
solutely unlimited from every standpoint. 

The human brain is composed of the finest 
tissue found in the human being. The internal 
brain which composes the instrument which ex¬ 
tracts the life force from the atmosphere and con¬ 
ducts it to all parts of the body by the nervous 
system, is coarser in its nature than the external 
brain, in which we find the various avenues that 
compose the field in which the material mind op¬ 
erates, and shows the nearer we approach to per¬ 
fection the finer the tissues become. We are not 
interested so much at present in the internal tis¬ 
sues of the brain as we are in the external, be¬ 
cause the internal primarily serve the body, while 
the external serve as a field, or, we should say, it 
is the connecting link between the physical and 
the psychic. 

There are at least forty-three avenues in the 
cortex of the brain through which intelligence is 


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transmitted from the soul mind to the material 
mind and the material mind is blended with the 
soul mind. The cortex of the brain is the in¬ 
strument which forms the basis from! which to 
operate. Now, we see the importance of the 
working knowledge of the human being in the 
study of Psychology. 

The brain is the field from which all psychic 
phenomena emanates. It cannot produce them 
of its own accord, but it is the medium through 
which they are manifested. All intelligence 
manifested by a human being emanates from the 
soul mind of that being but cannot be manifested 
in the absence of the brain. When the brain dis¬ 
solves, that instrument has finished its purpose 
and the soul that operated it has taken its de¬ 
parture and has vacated its place in the study of 
Psychology. 

It is not possible for a thought to be evolved 
and come into existence without the avenue in 
the brain being developed, neither can the mind 
evolve to a point of intelligence without the use 
of the brain, and in the absence of the brain life 
could not be applied to the body of man. Then 
the center and final consumation of everything 
by man is the brain. 


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THE SPIRIT OPERATING THE BODY 

The spirit is composed of life, energy and 
power, and partakes of the nature of both the 
limited and the unlimited. It is related to, and 
emanates from the unlimited power that moves 
the entire universe. In its nature it is both hu¬ 
man and divine. It is the power that gives mo¬ 
tion to our bodies. It is necessary to our exis¬ 
tence. It fills the same office in man that the 
steam fills in an engine. It does not have the 
intelligence to apply itself to the body to oper¬ 
ate it, but when it is applied to the body it oper¬ 
ates it until the body reaches a state of dissolu¬ 
tion where it cannot be operated, then it returns 
to the unlimited whence it came. 

The spirit intercedes between the soul and 
body, blending them together and making a liv¬ 
ing, active human being. Three in one, and one 
of three. 

The same intelligence that applies the steam 
to an engine and sets it in motion applies the 
spirit to the body and sets it in motion. This 
intelligence is not in the steam or the engine, 
neither is it in the body or the spirit. The intel¬ 
ligence that applies both emanates from the soul 
of man. No other living creature has the intelli¬ 
gence to apply the steam to an engine to operate 
it. If no other living creature has this intelli¬ 
gence, then it could not transmit it to man, as 
intelligence is not dependent upon the body and 


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brain, because no chemicals are taken from the 
body when the intelligence leaves it. 

The power to know man is within man. This 
power in man is the spirit of man. It is one of 
the primary causes of his existence. It gives to 
him the power to live, move and have his being as 
a man. Without it you would be powerless to 
express yourself in anyway. You would be like 
a motor with no electric current. It is the main 
spring of thought, action and life. 


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THE MATERIAL MIND OF MAN 

The material mind is a function of the brain. 
It has no other field in which to operate, no other 
home, no other life to live, no other purpose to 
serve but man. It is a product of the brain. It 
grows and develops as the body and brain does. 
It receives its intelligence from the soul mind. It 
is equal to the development of the brain. As we 
gain a knowledge of things we increase or en¬ 
large the field of the material mind. Our mater¬ 
ial mind is equal to our knowledge of things. It 
is the mind with which we do business and con¬ 
duct all of the affairs of life. It has made us what 
we are. It rules the world for good, when pro¬ 
perly directed, but when used for selfish purposes 
it brings sorrow and distress. By it every useful 
instrument has been invented, and every conven¬ 
ience of life can be traced to the material mind 
of man; and the end is not yet. It is active dur¬ 
ing our wakeful hours and sleeps when the body 
and brain are sleeping. Every ache and pain in 
the entire body is communicated to the material 
mind by the sensory nerves in the body. It is 
not the purpose of this mind to take care of the 
function of the various organs in the body be¬ 
cause it does not have an understanding of the 
various parts of the body, such as the liver, lungs, 
stomach, heart, digestion, and the numerous 
things accomplished by them. Its education has 
been to see after these things, and many times it 


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interferes very seriously in the work of nature in 
caring for the body. We should be hopelessly 
lost if the material mind had to care for these 
things, with its limited knowledge of them. It is 
equal to the work it is intended to do and can fill 
its place in the economy of man just as complete¬ 
ly as any other part of the body. If we take one 
part of the body out of its place and try to make 
it fill the office of some other organ in the body 
it will make a failure just as the material mind 
has been doing these many years when it tries to 
do the work which is under the direct care of the 
soul mind. 

When we reach the time in our lives that we 
are willing to trust our soul mind with the care 
of our internal being and stop worrying about our 
material mind’s inability to care for it, we shall 
have reached the time when we can really enjoy 
living. Let the material mind fill its place and 
serve us as a medium of communication with the 
outside world and attend strictly to its own busi¬ 
ness. I suppose when we evolve to this plane of 
life some will worry because they haven’t any¬ 
thing to worry about. People of this nature will 
have to pass beyond the great wall of thought be¬ 
fore we can all reach a plane of life where we can 
apply the principles of Psychology to our bodies. 

Psychology is a rugged road to travel be¬ 
cause of the mysteries people have thrown around 
it, but they will fade away when the search-light 


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of scientific truth is turned on them. It will be 
one of. the simplest things we have to deal with, 
but the theories regarding it will have to be ex¬ 
ploded before we can see the beauty of it. 

The material mind in its nature and purpose 
occupies a closer relationship to the brain than 
any othet part of his composition. The brain is 
its Ihome, its abiding place during its entire period 
of existence. It increases in volume as the brain 
evolves. It is purely and scientifically a function 
of the brain. It is limited in the work it per¬ 
forms to the avenues of the brain. Knowledge 
alone can develop the avenues which places at its 
service a plane upon which to operate, in which 
to perform its work from infancy to dissolution. 
By the process of gaining a knowledge of things 
we increase the possibilities of the material mind. 
The material mind cannot manifest itself in the 
absence of brain tissue. Brain tissue is the only 
tissue capable of evolving a material mind. When 
the brain becomes impaired the material mind 
becomes indefinite. When the avenues of the 
brain become unfitted for service, insanity is the 
inevitable result. 


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THE SOUL OF MAN 

The only way we can solve this question is 
to determine the nature and kind of work it per¬ 
forms. The soul is not composed of chemicals, 
neither is there any material substance entering 
into it. It stands out separate and apart from 
the rest of the body, and requires a different pro¬ 
cess of reasoning to establish its identity. This 
can be done with as much accuracy as any other 
subject with which we have to deal. It is the 
source of all psychic manifestations. The rest 
of the human being is only a medium through 
which/ it makes its presence known to the world. 
All intelligence emanates from the soul. The in¬ 
telligence is transmitted through the avenues of 
the brain to the material mind. The soul oc¬ 
cupies the same relationship to the soul mind 
that the brain does to the material mind. The 
soul is composed of life, power, energy and intel¬ 
ligence. Its life is unending, its power is unlim¬ 
ited, its energy is perpetual and its intelligence 
knows no bounds. Such are the elements com¬ 
posing the soul. 

When we stop to think what a wonderful 
being man is, to possess a soul like this, I am 
sure our estimate of a human being has been en¬ 
tirely too limited. His possibilities are far be¬ 
yond the limits that have been placed around 
him. I will prove the truthfulness of this to 
your entire satisfaction before we reach the end 


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Analysis of Man 


of our study of Psychology. 

Psychology is the science of the soul. Every 
truth relative to the possibilities of the soul is a 
part of this science. The soul occupies the entire 
human being but consumes no space. It is to 
man what an electric current is to an electric 
light system. Its presence is felt but not seen. 
We see the presence of the soul in every act of 
man, but the most profound manifestation of its 
wonderful power is the condition of the body 
when the soul leaves it. When the soul leaves 
the body there isi a slight decrease in the weight 
of the body, but only a few ounces, at the most. 
This is not due, however, to the weight of the 
soul, but is caused by the formation of gassess in 
the body. 

It can be demonstrated that by a process of 
breathing, the body will lose weight. I have had 
the experience of being in an electric storm in 
the mountains when it seemed almost impossible 
to stand on the ground. I am confident I was 
all there, but the attraction upward seemed to be 
unusually strong and I feel very confident that 
if there had been a pair of scales present I would 
have weighed slightly above zero. 

So far as it is possible to demonstrate, the 
soul cannot be weighed in pounds or even ounc¬ 
es, because it is immaterial, immortal, indestruc¬ 
tible and unending. It emanated from the Great 
Soul and knows no limits only when operating 


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through the avenues of the human brain. It 
solves all psychic problems but it cannot give the 
solution of them to the material mind until you 
prepare the channel through which it transmits 
intelligence to the material mind. 

The soul is our real being and preserves our 
identity. It watches over and prelects us while 
we are wrapt in slumber, taking our needed rest. 

The soul has the right and intelligence to 
govern and control all the functions in the body 
and brain. It can apply the food we eat to the 
body to maintain physical life. It governs the 
secretions and excretions in the body if allowed 
to operate normally. It applies the spirit to the 
body and brain, which gives them the power to 
act in the performance of their duty in maintain¬ 
ing physical life. It knows every part of the en¬ 
tire body, its purposes and its function. Its 
knowledge and understanding of every process 
in the human being is absolutely perfect, and 
when the material mind is properly educated and 
understands its part of the work in securing a 
normal body and brain it will be possible to elim¬ 
inate a vast amount of the suffering endured by 
people. 

When the material mind is warned of trouble 
in some part of the body it will request the soul 
mind to remove the obstruction and restore it to 
a normal process. The soul mind can do this if 
you will allow it to work as nature intended that 


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Analysis of Man 


it should. It is possible for us to evolve to a 
plane of life where we can enjoy living if we will 
apply the principles of Psychology to our bodies. 


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THE SOUL MIND OF MAN 

The Soul Mind is the intelligence manifested 
by the soul. It is the very essence of Psychol¬ 
ogy. Every psychic problem can be traced to 
the Soul Mind. It is in communication with the 
unlimited. It is that peculiar characteristic 
which elevates man above all other creatures ex¬ 
isting on this material plane of life. It is a part 
of that intelligence that knows no bound. It 
watches over, and protects our sleeping bodies 
while our material mind slumbers. 

Our real being, the soul, dwells in this taber¬ 
nacle of clay during our sojourn here, but the 
mind of our soul is not limited in its action to our 
bodies, but transcends the realms of the unknown 
and is at home everywhere. It is not like our 
material minds—limited to our bodies, as its field 
of operation. It uses the brain only when it is 
developed to the extent that it can transmit its 
intelligence through the channels reaching the 
material mind. Then, and only then, can the 
material mind receive it. This intelligence, while 
passing through the avenues in the brain, under¬ 
goes a process of blending, and upon reaching the 
material mind it becomes human intelligence. 

As the Great Intelligence is the mind of the 
Great Soul, so our intelligence is the mind of our 
soul, and when communicated to our material 
mind composes all of the human intelligence 
known in this material universe. Any other in- 


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telligence, if such does exist is unknown to us. 
There is more to be known by us than we shall 
ever be able to master, without wasting our time 
trying to solve the unknown, which is none of 
our affairs. 

When we shall have solved the problem of 
What Man Is, and of What He Is Composed; 
What the Spirit Is, and of What It Is Composed; 
What the Material Mind Is, and The Office It 
Fills in the Economy of Man; What the Soul Is, 
Its Composition and the Work It Performs in the 
Life of Man; What the Soul Mind Is, and the 
Purpose for which It Exists in Man, then we 
shall have solved the great question of Psychol¬ 
ogy, its limits, its bounds and its possibilities. 

From the Soul, conducted by the, soul mind, 
emanate all phychic phenomena known or un¬ 
known in the material universe. They have no 
other home, no other existence only in the soul 
mind of human beings. When we open the chan¬ 
nel from the material mind to the soul mind, we 
shall have paved the way to solve all these un¬ 
solved questions. 

It is not the purpose of the soul mind to for¬ 
mulate and send messages, but it can, and does 
deliver them when they are formulated by the 
material mind and their destination specified and 
the purpose for which they are being sent. 

The soul mind will not deliver a message 
that is indefinite, neither will it deliver a message 


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that will result in great harm to the one receiving 
it. The soul mind of every person is a protection 
to that person and will guard him from all dan¬ 
ger, unless his sense of warning is so inactive 
that he cannot be warned by it. However, the 
avenues which are active in seeking revenge or 
the destruction of people do not operate on the 
higher plane of life where messages are easily 
transmitted from mind to mind, but require phy¬ 
sical contact to satisfy their selfish purposes. 
That kind of people will never make psycholo¬ 
gists. 

All messages formulated by the material 
mind can be transmitted by the soul mind to the 
soul mind of another person, and his soul mind 
can transmit it to his material mind. It is not an 
attribute of the soul mind to formulate messag¬ 
es. It is inferior to its nature. 

When the material mind reaches its limit, 
the soul mind takes charge and perfects the plans 
formulated by the material mind. If the mater¬ 
ial mind was unlimited, it could serve every pur¬ 
pose of man, but it is limited to the brain and is 
dependent upon the soul mind for its intelligence. 

When the soul mind takes its departure from 
the body, the material mind ceases to act. The 
soul mind has lost its material instrument 
through which to make its presence known to the 
outside world, and bids farewell to earth and 
earthly things. It passes on to the plane of life 


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that is beyond the comprehension of our material 
minds. When we go beyond our power to dem¬ 
onstrate what occurs, then we willingly submit 
to the unlimited and accept what is in store for 
us by faith, believing that the GREAT SOUL, 
from whom our souls emanated, will do all things 
well. 

The soul mind is capable of maintaining its 
existence and operating independent of the hu¬ 
man being, and is in no way dependent upon it 
for its existence. The human being, together 
with all the functions of the brain and body, in¬ 
cluding the material mind, are wholly dependent 
upon the soul mind for their power to operate. 
The spirit is that which connects the Soul and 
body. In the absence of spirit, the soul cannot 
operate through the body. 

The soul mind is unlimited in solving all pro¬ 
blems. It emanated from the unlimited and is 
unlimited within itself, while it is limited when 
operating through the body, yet its plane of op¬ 
eration is not limited to the body. The soul mind 
knows no limit, only when operating through the 
body. It is not limited in knowledge, but it is 
limited in transmitting its knowledge to the ma¬ 
terial mind by the development of the avenues of 
the brain through which it transmits intelligence. 
The soul mind is our real being and preserves our 
identity. The soul is unlimited in its knowledge, 
wisdom and power, it being in touch with the 


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unlimited from which it emanated and has inher¬ 
ent within it unending life. 

The soul mind can see, hear and express it¬ 
self independent of the body in a way that the 
material mind can understand what is being said 
and done. It can go at the dead hour of night 
when the body, brain and material mind is wrapt 
in deep slumber and perform a work that is im¬ 
possible for you to perform while you are awake. 


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Making the Application 

MAKING THE APPLICATION 

The principles of Psychology, when scienti¬ 
fically applied to the human body can bring about 
physical changes, which to any one not familiar 
with its possibilities, seem beyond the power of 
a human being to accomplish. 

When something unusual occurs, such as 
changing the processes in the body and allowing 
nature to act normally, some are inclined to the 
belief that it is caused by a power superior to that 
possessed by man. When we understand the 
possibilities of the soul mind of man we shall 
know that the power to accomplish these things 
is within man. Every one who will can do them. 
When we hear good news we are delighted, and 
the life force is carried through the body at a 
higher speed than it usually moves, and some¬ 
times the aches and pains leave the body for the 
time being and the countenance takes on a plea¬ 
sant appearance; a world of pain and sorrow is 
transformed into a real fountain of bliss, all on 
account of a few words, perhaps not more than 
a half a dozen at the most. This is a wonderful 
change caused by a few pleasant words and it 
does not require an argument to prove that it is 
all brought about by the power within us. This 
change can occur in every one who understands 
the meaning of words. 

Just the little short word “yes” has caused 
joy beyond expression when it is the word we 


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want to hear. The opposite side of this proposi¬ 
tion is just as far-reaching as this one, but as we 
prefer to deal with the bright side of things we 
shall leave it for the pessimist to unfold and give 
you the dark side of life. 

The bright side of life is the only side we 
care to associate with; there is enough in it to oc¬ 
cupy our entire time during our sojourn here. 
Think thoughts of happiness and contentment 
and they will become a part of you. Live these 
thoughts out in your life and people will love you 
and will enjoy your association, and it will make 
better people for you to mix and mingle with; if 
persisted in, it will become contagious. It will 
drive the pessimist from your midst because he 
cannot exist in an atmosphere of this nature. 

Do not try to take anything from any one 
without giving him something to take its place. 
If you want to remove diseased conditions from 
the body of a person have him think, speak and 
act the things that go to make up a life of con¬ 
tentment. Get him away from the thought of 
being sick and he will continue to grow better 
each day until he will get away from', the thought 
of being sick. It will be necessary to give him 
good thoughts to think to take the place of the 
evil thoughts he has been thinking. 

Evil thoughts bring unpleasant feelings and 
make life one continual burden. Life is what we 
make it, or, we might say, it is what we allow 


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other people to make it. We must be exceeding¬ 
ly careful about allowing evil influence to get 
hold of us. We can repel them by refusing to 
entertain them; cast them aside and refuse to 
give them an abiding place, and they will have no 
power over you to do you any evil. 

If you want to relieve some one who is in 
distress, by applying to them the principles of 
Psychology, you must make up your mind what 
you want to do, then select the proper principle 
to use to get the desired results. It is very nec¬ 
essary for you to know something about the na¬ 
ture of your patient, because a positive person 
will require a greater effort on your part to reach 
him; just a little more energy on your part and 
you will succeed in reaching him and the results 
will follow. The same is true where a person is 
very weak, it will be necessary for you to draw 
on your supply of life force to tide your patient 
over the danger line, to the place where he is 
able to supply himself from the unlimited supply. 
This you can do without injury to yourself. 

When you are down and out and feel that 
the whole world has forsaken you and that your 
dearest friends care naught whether you live or 
not, you are associating with that blue gentleman 
that goes about preying upon whomsoever he 
finds willing to receive him. If you will show 
the gentleman the door and kick him out and 
then laugh real heartily at him, he will quit you, 


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and as you laugh the life force will go speeding 
through your body and brain, and you will feel 
that you '.have won a victory. You shall have 
gained confidence in your ability to repel the lit¬ 
tle troublesome things of life. The oftener you 
repel the evil influences the easier it will be for 
you to get rid of them, then you will grow strong¬ 
er and happier. 

If you flirt with the dangers along life’s path¬ 
way, sooner or later they will get you where you 
are unable to break their shackles; then they shall 
have come to stay and you will be unable to rid 
yourself of them. Our purpose in life is to break 
these shackles which bind people, and set them 
free. A scientific application of the principles of 
Psychology will do this. 

The success of the professional world is due 
to a proper application of the principles of Psy¬ 
chology, because it is a scientific fact that success 
in any business or profession is obtained by the 
development of the avenues of the brain through 
which the soul mind operates. When a man fails 
in business, every business man tries to avoid the 
thing that caused the failure, and by doing so 
they set in motion a scientific law that will enable 
them to avoid the thing that has filled the world 
with failures and in many cases, has cost the lives 
of good people. 

When a person has the knowledge of Psy¬ 
chology, he will know how to apply its principles 


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Making the Application 


to himself, which will elevate him to a plane of 
life where he will be happy and contented. It 
will banish fear and failure from him and it will 
attract people to him because he knows how to 
conduct himself, and when he can do this, by the 
same law he can control other people, and success 
only can follow him all the days of his life. 

This entire proposition hinges on the ques¬ 
tion of whether you know yourself or not, and 
the question of knowing yourself depends wholly 
upon your knowledge of Psychology. 

A knowledge of Psychology will give you an 
understanding of yourself, and you, being* one of 
the many who go to make up the entire popula¬ 
tion of the world, it will give you an understand¬ 
ing of every other human being. If people who 
have this knowledge, together with the qualifica¬ 
tions to manage a business, or profession, were 
the only ones allowed to engage in business, or 
come before the people as professional men, there 
would be no failures. People who engage in bus¬ 
iness to “fleece” the other fellow in order to 
“Feather their own nests” may thrive for a time, 
but failure awaits them in the end. 

If you are unable to see beyond the physical 
side of life you cannot appreciate the great field 
for development that is within your reach. No 
doubt you have wished many times that you were 
able to step out and free yourself from the dark¬ 
ness that surrounds you, and accomplish some 


35 


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great thing that would command the attention 
and admiration of the great minds whose busi¬ 
ness it is to deal with problems of great magni¬ 
tude. If you were able to attract the attention of 
people of this class to some great thing that you 
have been able to accomplish, you would be the 
happiest person on earth and yet, perhaps the 
power to accomplish things of this nature lies 
dormant within you. If I can succeed in arous¬ 
ing you to a realization of your possibilities and 
get you to see the great field of usefulness that 
lies before you, and the untold amount of good 
you can accomplish by a proper development of 
your brain, and assist you in doing this, I shall 
have accomplished my purpose in preparing this 
course of lectures. 

I am going to go with you from the lowest 
plane of material life step by step, until we reach 
the great storehouse of unlimited intelligence 
and will help you unlock the door and introduce 
you to your real self. Perhaps you are ready to 
say, “Let us be going.” 

I am confident that there are thousands of 
good, honest and sincere people who are capable 
of accomplishing great good, if they only knew 
how to get hold of themselves. I want to help 
you do that very thing. 

The first thing necessary for you to do is to 
believe you can do the thing you want to do. 
This belief on your part must be fortified by a 


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Making the Application 


sincere desire and these two will serve as a basis 
from which to operate. Next comes expectation 
this will naturally follow the other two. It is 
the material mind that believes, desires and ex¬ 
pects, but it is the soul mind that does the work 
in securing the desired results. 

Then in order to carry out your purpose, you 
must get in touch with your soul mind and make 
your desires known to it. Tell your soul mind 
just what you want to do. You must always be 
honest with your soul mind. You may be able 
to fool people, but you cannot fool your soul 
mind. If you will not be honest with yourself, 
then r/e camiot expect you to be honest with oth¬ 
er people. It will be time wasted on your part 
to enter the field of psychic research, because you 
can never be a psychologist. 

When you are in communication with your 
soul, you are in touch with your better nature. 
Every influence coming from your soul will lead 
you to a higher and purer plane of life. The evil 
thoughts that predominate a man’s life evolve 
in the material mind and show that he is living 
on a low material plane, and at no time is he gov¬ 
erned by the principles of Psychology. 

We do not like to deal with this side of life, 
but sometimes it is necessary in order to get peo¬ 
ple to appreciate what we are trying to tell them. 
There are two sides to every question. You can¬ 
not have a positive without a negative; the nega- 


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tive is the only proof we have that there is a pos¬ 
itive. If yfou will show me a pencil with only 
one end, then I will believe many things that I 
do not now believe. 

The only way by which we can know any¬ 
thing is by comparison. When you remove your 
power to compare things, yjou shall have elimin¬ 
ated this entire material universe, or dethroned 
our power to reason. We cannot have good 
without evil. We cannot have a psychologist 
without a materialist. 

We appreciate health because we know what 
it is to be sick. We appreciate happiness and 
contentment because we know what it is to be 
sad and despondent. We know what it is to love 
because we know what it is to hate. If you want 
health, you must think, act and believe the things 
that go to make up health, then, with a sincere 
desire on your part you may expect to be healthy 
The glands in the bodyi are capable of secreting 
all of the chemicals necessary to keep the body 
in a normal condition, if there is a sufficient 
amount of life force in each part of the body. 

The life force is dependent upon the brain. 
If the brain is normal it will supply all of the life 
force, needed in the body. The material mind is 
dependent upon the brain for a field in which to 
operate. It is possible for a person to become so 
frightened that the heart action will cease. The 
fright may be caused from external forces which 


38 


Making the Application 


come without any warning, and the material 
mind is unable to adjust itself to the situation, 
and results in paralysis of the entire body. 

I witnessed one case of this nature in which 
the heart action ceased in less than thirty min¬ 
utes. If a condition of this nature can be caused 
from fright, then why cannot the opposite bring 
about the restoration of a person who, from all 
appearances in beyond recovery. 

There are some things that are impossible. 
When a thing occurs which, within itself, is fatal, 
there is no law by which you can change the re¬ 
sults. 

I admire a person who will never say quit, as 
long as there is one ray of hope for a patient. I 
have fought battles for my patients where there 
was one chance in a thousand for them, won the 
victory and restored them to health. Every one 
can do this if they will prepare themselves. A 
doctor who will not fight to the last ditch, for 
the life of his patient, is not worthy of the name. 

It requires a positive person to succeed in 
any profession of life. Negative people do not 
have confidence in their ability to do things. 
They depend upon people to tell them what to do. 

If it were not for the negative class of people 
the doctors would have to learn a new profession. 
As long as there are thousands who would rather 
be led, than to lead, there will be plenty of work 
for all the different methods of healing. I be- 


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lieve that every human being has a place to fill 
that nothing else can fill, just as firmly as I be¬ 
lieve that every human being has a place to fill 
that no one else can fill for him. If he does not 
fill his place it will never be filled. 

No other part of a human being can fill the 
place of the soul mind; no other part is equal to 
it; no other part can operate without its assis¬ 
tance. 

It is not necessary to go back through past 
ages to establish the fact that the soul mind is in 
possession of the intelligence that paves the way 
by which great things are accomplished. This is 
being demonstrated to us every day of our lives. 
The reason why people do not recognize this fact, 
is because they do not know themselves. This 
fact has been demonstrated through all the past 
ages. If we were not in possession of what has 
occurred, the human being alone would prove 
that our statement is true. When a proposition 
can be demonstrated, and the truth relative to its 
existence can be assembled together, then we 
will have the scientific facts which cannot' be ov¬ 
erthrown by those who think otherwise. 

The only proof the opposition has to give us, 
is, “we may well suppose,” and they expect us 
to believe what they sayj when we can see the 
opposite indelibly written upon the face of every 
living human being. 

If the statement, that the soul mind does pos- 


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Making the Application 


sess the intelligence manifested by the material 
mind, can be proven and scientifically demon¬ 
strated until there is no room left for doubt in 
the minds of people who are willing to accept 
facts instead of fiction, then we will have a basis, 
from which to start our journey of psychic re¬ 
search, to establish the fact that Psychology is a 
scientific fact, and not a phantom to be chased 
and never found; to be sought, but never solved; 
which is like many of the things evolved in the 
material minds of some of our great men which 
cannot be traced beyond their vivid imagination* 
there to live and to die. Things of this nature lead 
to the deterioration of the entire being and leads 
one to the low material plane of life; to the things 
that perish with their using. 

If you will face about and use the same 
amount of life force in leading people to a better 
and nobler plane of life, it will be impossible to 
estimate your worth to the human family. You 
will be worth one hundred per cent in your own 
estimation when you understand the true princi¬ 
ples of Psychology; you will feel as though you 
had entered a new world. The life force will go 
bounding through your entire body. New ave¬ 
nues will be opened in your brain and the old 
ones will cease their activities because you have 
found something new. You are getting acquaint¬ 
ed with yourself. You are beginning to realize 
that you are in touch with an unlimited supply 


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of intelligence. This intelligence is the mind of 
your soul. Each human being has a soul and 
material mind, regardless of what you believe or 
think. The Great Intelligence has so ordered 
and your thinking otherwise cannot change it. 

Your life is just what the development of the 
avenues in your brain indicate it is. If you want 
to change the character and life of a person, you 
must change the field in which the material mind 
operates. This can be done by developing new 
avenues in the brain. If this process of develop¬ 
ment was taught daily in our public schools and 
the younger generations were made to under¬ 
stand the importance of a development of this 
nature, a greater part of them would become in¬ 
terested in their future welfare and it would be 
the means of evolving the coming generation to 
a higher plane of thought and life, and they, in 
turn, would have their influence upon those com¬ 
ing after them. 

A school for the purpose of teaching these 
principles would be worth more to civilization 
in raising the standard of living, than any other 
method. The children of our time have very lit¬ 
tle advantage over past ages in instructions along 
this line. While other methods of education have 
made wonderful advancement, this advancement 
h^s lost sight, to a great extent, of the importance 
of knowing oneself. It has had a greater tenden¬ 
cy to lead those who have had the greatest ad- 


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vantages, from an educational standpoint, to di¬ 
rect the minds of people to questions that they 
themselves can never answer or establish the 
scientific facts relative to. them. Neither will 
they ever be able to prove, to the satisfaction of 
the better class of thinking people, that there is 
any real benefit to be gained from their process of 
reasoning to establish something that exists only? 
in their material minds. These phantoms exist 
only for people of this caliber to waste their time 
on. 

If people who are following illusionary ideas 
would turn their attention to the development of 
the children in a way that would lead them to a 
better understanding of themselves, and use the 
same amount of energy they are using in chasing 
imaginary things, they would be worth a hun¬ 
dredfold more to the advancement of civilization 
and would really 1 and truly become valuable men. 
In their pursuit to bring about changes of this 
nature, they will be teaching the principles of 
Psychology. 

Psychology, being the science of the soul, ev¬ 
ery principle emanating from the soul has a tend¬ 
ency to elevate every one to whom it is applied, 
to a higher plane of living, where they will be 
happier and more contented; where their psychic 
influence will lead others to a better conception 
of real life. 

It is necessary that you have a fair under- 


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standing of human nature, to succeed in any line 
of work where you must depend upon the gener¬ 
al public for your income. The face of a person 
is an open book to a good psychologist; his en¬ 
tire life is written there in a way that it is im¬ 
possible for him to hide, or to deceive a person 
who understands human nature. There are sev¬ 
eral ways by which you can read people, either 
of them is as accurate as a thermometer is in reg¬ 
istering heat and cold. When this can be done, 
there is no excuse for a person to be deceived in 
any one. 

Every person should have some well defined 
purpose in life. If you do not have some goal 
that you are striving to reach, you will become 
discontented, unsettled and purposeless. For ev¬ 
ery work of life that you expect to perform suc¬ 
cessfully you must have some definite purpose in 
view. Pursue that purpose with a full deter¬ 
mination from the depths of your soul, and place 
it upon an immovable basis, and in time you will 
win a triumphant victory over all obstacles. 

One of the greatest mistakes that honest and 
sincere people make is, that they are too much 
inclined to think that every one else is honest 
and sincere. 

Never condemn a person until you have a 
reason for doing so, neither should you trust a 
person until you have a reason to do so. 


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BEING YOUR OWN MASTER 

Honest people will invite investigation, but 
dishonest people will get angry at you if you 
mention such a thing. They do not like to have 
their honesty questioned because they know it 
will not stand investigation. 

There are many people who think they are 
psychic and talk a great deal about psychology, 
but that is as far as they are able to go. I could 
tell you more about heaven than they; can tell 
you about Psychology. I have met people who 
told me they had taught Psychology, but they? 
were honest enough to tell me that they did not 
know anything about it. I really think there is 
some hope for a person who is that honest. 

If you try to represent yourself to be some¬ 
thing that you are not, sooner or later you will 
meet some one wlio is a live wire on that line, 
then you will have to fold yjour barque and steal 
away, because your sins are sure to find you out. 
If you are really and truly? a pshychologist you 
will not have to run after people; they will run 
after you. Your service will be in demand ev¬ 
ery hour of the day. People are naturally^ in¬ 
clined to a study of psychology and will do so if 
you can give them something worth while; some¬ 
thing that has some foundation to it. They are 
getting tired of this up-in-the-air business, with 
nothing to stand on. 

There is quite an inclination among many 


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people to classify psychology as a religion. There 
is such a thing as the psychology of religion 
which is a very) interesting study. There are 
many wonderful lessons to be learned from a 
study of this nature. Some of the greatest dem¬ 
onstrations that I have witnessed, of psychology, 
have been along this line of thought, but it is not 
correct to say that psychology is a religion. It 
would be just as proper to say that water is rain. 
It sustains the same relationship to every branch, 
of study, business and profession in existence, 
known or unknown to us. It is unlimited and its 
possibilities will never be fathomed by man. 

All of the combined forces of this material 
universe could not harness it up and make a re¬ 
ligion out of it, because it does not belong to 
them. Its intelligence is far beyond the powers 
of human intelligence. It is just as much greater 
as the unlimited is greater than the limited. 

The soul mind is dependent upon the devel¬ 
opment of the avenues of the brain as a channel 
through which it transmits intelligence to the 
material mind. The soul does not prepare the 
brain to operate through. It makes no choice in 
this development; this is accomplished by the 
material mind. 

If a certain thing appeals to you and you 
make up your mind to master it, a process of de¬ 
velopment takes place in the avenue of the brain 
peculiar to that line of work. When you have a 


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perfect understanding of the nature and opera¬ 
tion of that thing you will have placed the soul 
mind in possession of that avenue, then it will 
transmit to your material mind a complete solu¬ 
tion of every] problem relating to that nature of 
work which will make you unlimited on that 
proposition. You will be able to answer any 
question asked you regarding it. The intelli¬ 
gence of the soul mind can solve any problem 
for you if you will prepare the channels through 
which it gives information to the material mind. 
With this solution before us, we can understand 
why it is that so many wonderful demonstrations 
are made in connection with things we know to 
be untrue. These things do not emanate from 
the soul mind, but have their origin in the ma¬ 
terial mind, and as the soul has no choice in, the 
matter, it can use only the avenues placed at its 
disposal. It matters not whether it is for good 
or evil, the soul mind will use it. 

When you see psychic phenomena, do not 
make up your mind that they can end only in 
good. If y!ou think you are going to be robbed 
and you keep that thought constantly on your 
mind, it will put you in touch with every robber 
in that locality, and the result is, you get robbed. 
Perhaps they would not have thought of you if 
you had kept your mind on other things. 

Think the right kind of thoughts and the 
things that you attract to yourself by doing so 


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will help you overcome the evil influences that 
come your way. If you desire to do good and be 
useful you must develop the avenues that lead in 
that way, then make up your mind to do those 
things. It requires a determination on your part 
to accomplish anything. It will not come to you 
if you sit down and wait; you must be active in 
order to draw on the unlimited supply. If you 
are careless and undecided you will never be 
worth anything to yourself or those around you. 
When you fully determine in your mind to do a 
thing and summon your entire supply of life 
force to accomplish your purpose and then apply 
it, you will succed in your undertaking. In this 
way you will be able to overcome every obstacle 
in your way, provided your purpose is honorable 
and upright. 

I believe the statement that, “Truth is 
mighty and will prevail,” is strictly a psycholog¬ 
ical proposition. It may be hindered for a time, 
but it will finally win, because it is a scientific 
fact. The soul mind will give you the required 
assistance when your purposes are just and up¬ 
right, that it will not give when your desires are 
of a low material nature, to be used to satisfy 
your selfish appetite. 

If you want to become a psychologist in or¬ 
der to get rich by charging people exorbitant 
prices for your services, you will not succeed in 
your undertaking. You are mistaken as to the 


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meaning of the science. 

One of the first principles of Psychology is 
to know and control yourself. When you can do 
this, you are a fit subject to enter the field of psy¬ 
chic research. It is not necessary for you to give 
your time gratis, but you must be reasonable in 
your charges or you will find yourself drifting 
away from the principles of Psychology. 

If you have a patient or friend who is both¬ 
ered with insomnia and you want to make him 
sleep normally, decide in ytour mind the hour in 
the day or night that you want to reach him. 
Prepare your message, using the exact words to 
express what you want to take place in your pa¬ 
tient, being careful to use words that will not be 
confusing, as the soul mind will not deliver a 
message that is indefinite or that contains more 
than one thought, because the soul mind is in¬ 
divisible and will not separate the two thoughts 
in the message, and the result will be that neither 
of them will be delivered. 

If your message is properly prepared, give it 
to your soul mind with instruction that it deliver 
it to the soul mind of your patient, and that his 
soul mind apply it to his body for the purpose of 
removing the trouble causing the sleeplessness, 
and to hold it over him until the desired results 
are obtained. 

It will be better to have the message deliver¬ 
ed in the after part of the night. It will be easier 


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to reach your patient at this time, and the mess¬ 
age will be more effective. You may repeat this 
message each night if you wish. If your patient 
does not know what you are doing, his material 
mind will not interfere with your work. 

In sending messages of this nature, always 
suggest that it secure a normal function in all 
parts of the body. You need not stay awake un¬ 
til the hour for the message to be delivered. Your 
soul mind will see to it, even though you are 
wrapt in deep slumber at that hour. 

Messages for the purpose of removing dis¬ 
eased conditions can be sent any distance. The 
soul mind can deliver a message a thousand miles 
away with as much accuracy as it can five feet. 
Distance offers no resistance in the work of the 
soul mind. Your soul mind is in touch with ev¬ 
ery other soul mind in the material universe. It 
makes no mistake; it will not deliver your mess¬ 
age to any one except the one you intend to re¬ 
ceive it. 

When you have delivered your message to 
your soul mind, ylou are through with it. Your 
material mind has no further responsibility. You 
can go on about your business and even though 
you should forget all about it, it will be delivered 
at the hour you have designated. 

After you have given the message to your 
soul mind, you can recall it any time before the 
hour set for its delivery. A doubt on your part 


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will kill the message; it will not even be deliver¬ 
ed. This may seem peculiar, yet it is true. It 
seems that the psychic force has no confidence in 
a person who doubts its power to perform work 
assigned to it. You must at all times express 
your unlimited confidence in your soul mind’s 
ability to perform any work you may assign to it. 

You should never send a message in this way 
to influence a person to do anything they do not 
want to do, unless they are doing the thing that 
is not best for them, because they have their 
lives to live. You may not be able to see the 
present situation from their viewpoint. Do not 
try to make people do something because you 
will be benefited by them doing it. That would 
be selfishness on your part. If you want people 
to live differently, give them something better to 
live for. Every one can get pleasure and enjoy¬ 
ment out of doing the right thing at the right 
time. 

In sending messages to be applied to the 
body of your patient, be carful to avoid any sug¬ 
gestion as to the pulsations of the heart, unless 
it should be abnormal; in that case, you should 
suggest that its action be normal. Never give a 
suggestion to change any one without his con¬ 
sent, unless it is for his good; to bring about a 
better condition physically or mentally. 

There is a great demand for good psycholo¬ 
gists. About seventy per cent of the troubles the 


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human family are heir to, are amenable to psy¬ 
chic treatment. About fifty per cent can be re¬ 
stored to health by a proper application of the 
principles of Psychology. About twenty-five 
per cent of those who get sick will pass over the 
Great Divide, regardless of what may be done for 
them. People who have very little vitativeness 
will die, many times without any apparent cause, 
and those possessed of a great amount will get 
well in spite of everything that may happen to 
them. I have visited quite a few patients who 
possessed a large amount of vitativeness, who 
were dangerously ill. When I saw what they 
possessed I would always say that they would 
get well, and I have never missed my guess to 
this good day. 

If you can look at a person and tell the plane 
of life on which he lives and thinks upon and you 
understand yourself well enough to adjust your¬ 
self to his plane of living, for the time being, he 
will feel that he has found a real friend in you. 
Then you are in a position to make a business 
deal with that man. If you have what lie needs 
or can use, he will buy it, even though he may 
be a hard man to deal with. Your success in a 
professional way lies in your ability to know peo¬ 
ple, but before you can do that, you must know 
yourself. You must know how to build a house 
before you can build it. 

Knowledge is the key that will unlock the 


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door to an understanding of every problem with 
which we have to deal. It will unlock the door 
to the unlimited which will put you in touch with 
the solution of the things you should know. It 
will remove the mystery intervening between 
your material and soul mind and will give you 
the solution of them. 

I have been asked the question many times, 
why it is possible for us to get the information 
regarding things, days and sometimes months, 
before they transpire. A thing must exist before 
it can occur. The entire information of what is 
going to take place in your life is known by your 
soul long before it happens. It knows the con¬ 
dition of everything and what the final results 
will be when the time arrives for it to occur. 

If you are in anyway concerned in some¬ 
thing that is going to take place, your soul mind, 
being unlimited in its knowledge, can give this 
information to your material mind, if there is a 
channel through which it can transmit it. If you 
are in good health and the organs of the body are 
functioning properly, it can come to you in a 
dream so that you will be able to see it almost as 
real as though it had occurred. At other times 
it will come to you in the form of impressions. 
This occurs while ybu are awake. When it comes 
to you in this way, you will not be able to see it 
as clearly as you can in a dream. 

People who have causality well developed, 


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are better prepared to get what is yet in the fu¬ 
ture by impression, frequently they can see it be¬ 
fore it happens. In a case of this kind, it is trans¬ 
mitted to them a short time before it occurs. 

Premonition is a trait of human nature pos¬ 
sessed by every one, and is a very valuable asset, 
if properly developed, but too often it is neglect¬ 
ed and allowed to become dormant to the extent 
that it is of very little value. However, it is eas¬ 
ily developed if a> person should realize his need 
of it. It is a protection to every one and they 
should keep it well developed, because it might 
be the means of saving life sometimes. It is bet¬ 
ter to be mistaken a hundred times in your warn¬ 
ing than to overlook it when danger is staring 
you in the face. 

What would a fortune be worth to a man if 
he should lose his life? When we are given na¬ 
tural protection against the dangers that beset 
our pathway, we should give them careful con¬ 
sideration. A human being is the most wonder¬ 
fully protected being of the entire Creation. 
Look well to the little things of life and the great¬ 
er ones will be cared for. Your soul mind is 
watching over you all the time. It knows what 
is ahead of you and if danger lurks there, it will 
give ytau ample warning of its coming so you will 
be able to avoid it. The old idea that, “what is 
to be will be,” has lulled many poor souls to 
slumber in the very jaws of danger. 


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Awake from your lethargy and do your part 
in protecting your life and the lives of the people 
which, many times, you hold in your hands. 

The human family are blest with the faculty 
of intuition which enables them to act without 
having to wait for long drawn out arguments as 
to what is best to do in case of danger. We 
should avail ourselves of every advantage given 
us by nature. If a tornado approaches, lose no 
time in getting to a place of safety—you were 
born with that much judgment. 

A great many people dream the opposite of 
what really occurs. This is due to a lack of 
nerve supply in the brain which causes the posi¬ 
tive and negative to pass through the same chan¬ 
nel. This carries the negative supply of intelli¬ 
gence which makes the meaning of your dream 
negative. 

When a person is overdeveloped psychically, 
he is just as unfortunate as the one who is a ma¬ 
terialist. It is necessary that you possess enough 
of the physical to clothe your psychic visions, 
and enough of the psychic to bring out the beauty 
and symmetry in your solutions of the physical 
side of life. One of them cannot exist on a ma¬ 
terial plane of life without the other. 

A person is apt to forget the physical side in 
his search for light along scientific lines. A hu¬ 
man body is a scientific problem which may nev¬ 
er be fully understood. All scientific laws are 


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related to each other. They all emanate from the 
same source. A study of these laws and their 
application to the various departments in nature 
are scientific problems which will never be fully 
known. 

There are many things which we know ex¬ 
ist because we can see the effects of them. We 
can take the brain of a human being and prove 
beyond a doubt that there is a Supreme Being. 
The intercellular substance out of which human 
tissue evolves is not susceptible to transmuta¬ 
tion, which proves that the promulgation of the 
human race is guided by Infinite Wisdom which 
is beyond the comprehension of the finite mind. 
This infinite being is the great fountain-head 
from which all intelligence emanates. 

As the Great Intelligence is the mind of the 
Great Soul, so our intelligence is the mind of our 
soul. This is the mind that carries your mess¬ 
ages to their destination, to restore some poor 
unfortunate being to health and happiness. 

The possibilities of Psychology cannot be 
estimated. The development of its principles 
will be far greater in the next few years than 
there has been in the past fifty years. People at 
this time are intensely interested in Psychology. 
They are devouring every piece of literature 
coming within their reach, searching for light on 
the subject. 

The great trouble with people has been that 


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they will take one branch of the subject to the 
exclusion of all others, and run it to the extreme, 
and when they learn that they cannot accomplish 
everything with it, they leave it to die of its own 
accord. 

The basic principles of Psychology cover ev¬ 
ery calling, it matters not what it may be. The 
human being is the only being in the material un¬ 
iverse that has the intelligence to solve problems 
of this nature. 

The way to success must be carefully and 
thoroughly paved if you reach it of your own ac¬ 
cord. If it is thrust upon you by the efforts of 
some one else, without first preparing you to re¬ 
ceive it, it will be of short duration; it will be as 
seed sown by the wayside, it will soon be con¬ 
sumed by fleeting pleasures. 

What the world needs most today is a better 
developed brain and less theory which would 
save millions of our fellow travelers from pre¬ 
mature journeys across the great wall of thought 
where theory has no abiding place. 

It is impossible for a man to think one kind 
of life and live another kind. He may succeed 
for the time being, but just as sure as he enter¬ 
tains thought along certain lines, they will be¬ 
come a part of him, and begin to live these 
thoughts every day of his life. The responsibility 
is with us, in entertaining these thoughts, know¬ 
ing them to be good or evil. 


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Your life is a suggestion which you are giv¬ 
ing continually each day. You are helping to 
create the environment for others to live in. 
Then you should pave the way to higher things 
by living so that you will scatter light and sun¬ 
shine for those who are striving to reach a higher 
plane of thought and a more perfect life in which 
love, mercy and goodness are the primary ele¬ 
ments entering, where sweet communion vibrates 
from soul to soul and each one feels that it is 
good to be there. 

Then let each effort of your life be for the 
purpose or evolving every one with whom ybu 
come in contact, to a higher plane. On this plane 
your worth to the human race cannot be estimat¬ 
ed, while you have the power and intelligence to 
mold the lives and destinies of those around you 
for good, which within itself is a grand and noble 
work that cannot be expressed in words. 

Your will is just as great as your power is to 
accomplish a thing. Still you may have the will 
and power to accomplish great things and not 
have the desire. If you have the desire to do 
something that will greatly benefit humanity and 
have the power and will to do it, you should pro¬ 
ceed of your own accord, because you owe it to 
the world to do so. Should you withhold a bless¬ 
ing from people because the price is not great 
enough, and then they should pay you your price, 
that is all you are entitled to. Your greatness in 


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the minds of people is measured by the things you 
do. If you have the power to relieve people of 
their suffering by the application of the princip¬ 
les of psychology* and you refuse to do so for any 
reason, you will lose the power to accomplish 
things of this nature. 

When a person becomes selfish with his pow¬ 
er in dispensing blessings through psychic force, 
he will deteriorate and fall below the plane of life 
where psychic influences operate freely. I have 
been wooking along! this line for forty years and 
I have never deprived any! one of relief because 
they did not have the price. You cannot use 
Psychology for mercenary purposes. If it could 
have been done it would have been harnessed 
long ago. Some one would have had a corner on 
it. The class of people who crave riches the 
most know very little about Psychology, neither 
do they 4 care anything about it. 

When you withhold the pay for 4 any service, 
a great majority of the people will quit serving 
you. Yes, and more than that, thousands of 
people would lose their religion if you stopped 
their pay. People who are good, honest and 
sincere because they really love to be that way, 
deserve more credit than any other class of peo¬ 
ple. It will pay to be so in any profession. It 
does not cost anything, but you may be lonesome 
sometimes because the road is not crowded going 
that way. 


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The greatest cures that have ever been ac¬ 
complished, have been brought about by the aid 
of Psychology applied by the soul mind of some 
one. You have that power within you, if you will 
develop it. 

If you will prepare your brain, which you 
can do, to the extent that your soul mind can op¬ 
erate through it, you can do anything that has 
been done. You may say, “the effect is too 
great” and become discouraged, but it is worth 
more to you than words can express and the 
world will be blest by' your effort. There is so 
much in life for every one, if you will only make 
it possible for it to come to you. Perhaps it was 
through untiring efforts of a friend or loved one 
that you were evolved to a higher and better 
plane of life. The psychic plane of life and 
thought can only be reached by those who apply 
themselves to the scientific side of life, both in 
thought and manner of living. It will require an 
effort on your part lest you be led away by the 
material things of life that today are predomin¬ 
ating the lives of the human race. 

If I send a message and direct it in the pro¬ 
per channels, the result will be that for which it 
was given. The power and intelligence which 
set in operation this scientific law is inherent in 
me. 

The All-Wise Creator does not intercede to 
apply these laws in order to get the desired re- 


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suits. Everything necessary to relieve suffering 
humanity is placed at our command, if we will 
evolve to the proper plane where we can intelli¬ 
gently apply them. You can evolve to this plane 
and become a blessing to yourself and to all with 
whom you come in contact. If you desire to be¬ 
come useful in relieving human beings of their 
afflictions, you should prepare the channel 
through Which this intelligence is transmitted. 
This can be done by a proper development of the 
brain which increases the power of the material 
mind. While the material mind is undergoing a 
change of this nature, it will cause a restless, un¬ 
easy disposition in the person and at times he 
may become real nervous. This will occur in 
the study of any question which requires a great 
effort to understand. The more interesting the 
subject, the greater it will affect one. This con¬ 
dition always exists in those who are very ac¬ 
tive in search of knowledge. 

As a person gains knowledge the desire for 
more increases, so the greater the knowledge one 
has the more he is inclined to be restless. The 
intensity of this is noticed more in people who 
are striving to accumulate wealth. Some will 
lose sight of everything else to the neglect of 
their own health. The same is true in the study 
of Psychology. They overlook the fact that it 
covers an immense field of study. It is applic¬ 
able to every profession known to the human 


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family. Without it, we would be powerless to 
solve the problems of life. It is the beginning 
and end of every act performed by us during life. 

This is the reason why you are unable to 
perform work of any nature until your brain is 
developed to the extent that your soul mind can 
transmit the solution of the proposition to your 
material mind, then you are prepared to perform 
work of that nature. Otherwise, it would re¬ 
main a mystery to you. It would be a waste of 
time on your part to ask for knowledge upon any 
question without preparing the channel through 
which the information comes to you. Your soul 
mind is in possession of any knowledge you may 
desire, but you cannot get it until you prepare 
the way in which it comes to you. 

It does not require a great amount of de¬ 
velopment on your part for a suggestion to 
change your entire disposition. You may have 
a good appetite and sit down to a m^eal that ap¬ 
peals very strongly to you, and when you are 
ready to begin eating some one hands you a tele¬ 
gram announcing the death of a loved one. Your 
appetite is gone, you have no desire to eat. This 
is all brought about by the suggestion in a tele¬ 
gram. Your mind is called away from eating by 
the message which has caused a change in the 
chemical compound in the stomach; you could 
not digest the food if you ate it, so nature pro¬ 
vides for your safety by removing your appetite. 


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Under the same circumstances, you may sit 
down to an attractive meal and some one comjes 
up and insults you. The same thing occurs, but 
in addition to the other changes, the fluids in the 
stomach are turned to a poison and is liable to 
cause you serious trouble, even though you do 
not eat anything. 

Now, if you will change the nature of the 
suggestion; some one may tell you that they 
have made a deal for you in which you will be 
benefited thousands of dollars. The life force 
will go bounding through your body and if you 
were suffering pain, it will leave you and perhaps 
never return. Under the condition of affairs you 
can eat food, that under ordinary circumstances 
would not agree with you and you will digest it 
without causing you the least unpleasantness. 

Results of this nature occur frequently, and 
still we doubt the power of suggestion to bring 
about certain changes in the body under more 
favorable surroundings. There are cases on re¬ 
cord where results of far greater magnitude have 
occurred than those we have mentioned. 

I call to mind an elderly lady, who had an 
unusually sweet disposition, whose son married 
a girl whose nature was unpleasant at times and 
on one occasion, she called her mother-in-law a 
grey-headed fool, upon which, the elderly lady 
said: “May you know what it is to be grey/’ In 
less than three months the girl’s hair was grey. 


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If a person is in the right, suggestions of this 
nature will not affect them in this way. If they 
are in the wrong, they had better be careful what 
they say, for it will come home to them some¬ 
times. 

A person will attract the things peculiar to 
their nature and disposition. If they are offen¬ 
sive to those around them, it will cause the thing 
they wish would happen to others to react upon 
themselves. The reaction will be more pro¬ 
nounced if the other person is of a cheerful and 
happy disposition. If a person does not live in 
an offensive atmosphere you will never be able to 
affect them to any great extent by the things 
you say about them. 

When a person can smile and say, “I am 
glad what he said about me is not true,” need 
have no fear of adverse suggestions causing any 
serious changes in them. They are living on a 
plane of life where offensive things cannot 
thrive. Things of this nature can only evolve 
on the low material planes where people do not 
realize the great value of pure thinking; where 
Ihe principles of Psychology are not known; 
where hatred, selfishness and revenge are the pre¬ 
domination principles entering into their lives. 
This is the class of people who should fear the 
reaction from the unkind things they say to oth¬ 
ers. A person with a clean pure life has nothing 
to fear, but fear. 


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SANE 

By careful analysis of the human brain, you 
will observe that a perfectly sane person is prac¬ 
tically a physical impossibility. Every person is 
insane upon, at least, one line of thought and 
may be so upon several lines of thinking. In¬ 
sanity may be any condition of mind varying 
from a perfectly balanced mind upon any ques¬ 
tion that he may be called upon to express his 
opinion. 

There are several ways by which insanity 
may be detected in people who ordinarily are 
considered safe and sane. Our purpose in writ¬ 
ing this lecture is to assist those who may be in¬ 
clined to become unbalanced upon any line of 
thought by giving them a scientific plan by which 
they can avoid or overcome any inclination to 
vary from a normal condition mentally. 

It is a real pleasure to write about nice things 
and tell of the beautiful things we can attract to 
us by concentration of thought. But there are so 
many who seem to be unable to break the shack¬ 
les that are holding them down and depriving 
them of their inherent right to enjoy the plea¬ 
sures of life, we are impelled to write this lec¬ 
ture for their benefit. It is a scientific fact 
that you cannot be beneficial to any one by 
taking what he has from him without giving him 
something in the place of what he has. In order 
to do this, I am going to give a scientific way by 


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which those who need assistance can evolve to a 
different plane of life where they can think and 
act without the evil things predominating their 
lives. When a person reaches a time When he 
cannot control his thoughts, he must have assis¬ 
tance from some source to enable hint to get hold 
of himself and give him something to engage his 
mind with, to draw the circulation away from 
that part of his brain that has become overactive, 
which is the cause of his trouble. 

If the circulation in the brain were properly 
distributed, a great deal of the mental trouble 
would disappear and all could be greatly relieved. 
However, in cases where the brain tissue has 
been destroyed, there is no process by which it 
can be restored and the material mind will never 
be able, to use that part of the brain. That part 
of the instrument has become impaired to the 
extent that it can never be operated, either for 
good or evil. Anything that detracts the life 
force from a greater part of the brain and directs 
it into one channel of thought will cause a person 
to becomje unbalanced. This may occur until his 
reason become temporarily dethroned. In case 
of this nature, the person is strongly influenced 
by some fully developed avenue in the cerebell¬ 
um. Perhaps this is intensified by jealousy in 
his process of thinking the circulation is attract¬ 
ed away from the cerebrum and centered wholly 
in the cerebellum. His reason is dethroned by a 


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lack of circulation to that part of the brain to off¬ 
set the intensified condition in the cerebellum. 
In this condition, he will take the life of his fel- 
lowman. The animal life together with all of 
the animal desires are centered in the cerebell¬ 
um. When these predominate a man’s action, he 
is a dangerous ntan and should be cared for until 
the circulation can be fully restored to the cere¬ 
brum, in which the power to reason intelligently 
upon all questions is located. When these ave¬ 
nues are active they serve as a protection against 
any evil influence or the inclination to become 
unbalanced upon any question, great or small. 
The greater the development of one’s brain, the 
greater will be his protection against becoming 
insane upon any line of thought and the easier it 
will be for him to control the circulation in his 
brain. This is important in every one who has 
problems of great magnitude to deal with. He 
should know himself well enough to be able to 
rest his mind when his day’s work is over. When 
he leaves his office he should leave his worries of 
a business nature locked up in his office until he 
returns the following day. A man who has busi¬ 
ness responsibilities that require constant use of 
his brain during the day must change his line of 
thought and direct'the circulation to some other 
part of his brain at least eight hours out of each 
twenty four in order to maintain a healthy condi¬ 
tion of his brain. Worry will burn up; more life 


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force than the brain can supply. 

If a person will apply himself to a study of 
Psychology for an hour each day, it would benefit 
him more than anything else he could do to re¬ 
lieve an overworked brain. 

The principles of Psychology are applicable 
to every avenue in the brain and will produce a 
wider range of circulation in the brain than the 
study of any other subject. This is why a psy¬ 
chologist can see the bright side in the greatest 
problems of life. 

A perfectly sane human being will never be 
found. There is no place in this material uni¬ 
verse where the environments will permit one to 
be so. There was one who lived that was sane, 
but He was without sin. When a law is enacted 
there is a purpose to be accomplished by that law. 
When the purpose for which the law was given 
has been fulfilled then that law by virtue of its 
own limitation, will cease to be in force. That 
was one purpose for which He that was without 
sin lived on this earth. 

To be sane is to be perfect mentally. You 
cannot go beyond perfection, neither will you 
ever be able to reach the limit of the standard. A 
man who is perfectly developed mentally, with 
full control of each part of his brain could be 
termed a sane man, but the instant that he be¬ 
comes angry he would become insane. Anger is 
an unbalanced condition of the material mind. 


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Hatred, malice, envy, strife, jealousy, enmity, 
selfishness, greed and licentiousness, are all the 
fruits of an improperly balanced mind. 

We can start with hatred, which I presume 
is about the most common product of the mind, 
and follow the line all the way down to criminal 
insanity and we find it varies only in degrees. 
We find that those who represent the entire list 
are capable of caring for themselves when they 
have business of their own to see after. The 
criminal insane are a class who have never de¬ 
veloped the avenues of their brain located in the 
cerebrum and the things produced by the exer¬ 
cise of those avenues never appeal to them. Jus¬ 
tice and mercy never enter into their line of 
thought. This class should be cared for, not as 
a punishment, but as a protection to the better 
thinking class of people. There should be schools 
established for their special benefit where the 
avenues which lead to higher thoughts could be 
developed. By this process they could be evol¬ 
ved to a higher plane of life and become useful in 
many ways. In their present condition they do 
not know what it is to be happy and contented. 
The avenues in their brain whereby they would 
enjoy innocent pleasures are undeveloped. They 
are unable to appreciate the things enjoyed by 
those on a higher plane of life. The things that 
go to make up a man’s responsibility should be 
judged by the development of his brain. 


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If a person is incapacitated to do a thing, 
why should he be held responsible for not doing 
it? If a mhn is not capable of counting money, 
you would not condemn him for not conducting 
a banking business. If a man does not have the 
ability to speak in public, you would not punish 
him for not taking the field as a lecturer. If a 
man never heard of a Bible, would you con¬ 
demn him for not being a Christian? Perhaps 
you would say, “Prepare him to see the true 
light.” That is the thought I am trying to. get 
you to see. I do not believe we should counten¬ 
ance a wrong that is destructive in its nature in 
any one. But I do not believe that punishment 
is the right course to pursue in correcting the 
wrongs of the unfortunate. While we, as a na¬ 
tion, demand that we have justice and mercy, the 
most of us want mercy, but we want the other 
fellow to get the justice. Mercy without justice, 
is too lenient for our present needs, and justice 
without mercy would be too severe on all of us. 

The mental condition of those who are crim¬ 
inally insane, is such that they can be relieved to 
a great extent by a proper development of their 
brain. Justice demands that they have a chance 
to evolve out of their present state of existence. 
Punishment with confinement will never correct 
mental condition of this class of people. When 
our government can appreciate the need of 
schools to correct this mental condition and get 


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busy, then we will be able to rid our nation of 
this underdeveloped class of people. A five year 
course in a properly conducted school with the 
right kind of environment would be worth more 
to a person of this kind than twenty years in a 
prison at hard labor. The school would make a 
good citizen out of seventy-five per cent of them. 
While five years of prison life will make a crimi¬ 
nal out of seventy-five per cent of the good men 
who. have been unfortunate in being assigned to 
a place of this nature. 

If it requires a certain line of teaching pro¬ 
perly applied to a man to make a good Christian 
out of him why will not the same rule work if ap¬ 
plied to this unfortunate class? “Truly the legs 
of the lame are unequal.” It is just and right 
that those who are really in need of help should 
be able to obtain the relief they deserve. Res¬ 
ponsibility and ability always go hand in hand. 
The absence of one removes the other. 

It is to be regretted that we have a certain 
class who are criminally insane, yet we are un¬ 
able to reach and control them by the laws of 
our land. We are compelled to deal with this 
class of insanity, both morally and financially. 
Their influence is downward with a tendency to. 
unbuild instead of upbuild as a nation. This 
class is further removed from the influence of 
Psychology than any of the others because of 
their knowledge of good and evil. 


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CHILD CULTURE 

Books should be written on this subject and 
distributed free to every parent, each book should 
contain the things they should know in order to 
assist them in the care of their offspring. 

The only one who can really appreciate these 
duties are those who have assumed the respon¬ 
sibility. Experience is the greatest teacher this 
world has every known. Any one who has not 
had the real experience cannot understand the 
feeling between parents and their children. From 
their viewpoint they may think they know a great 
deal more about what to do than the mother does. 
If they have never experienced the love a mother 
has for her own child, they cannot realize the tie 
that binds them together and, when they tell you 
how children should be raised they are speaking 
from a mechanical standpoint and not from the 
great depths of their soul from which only a par¬ 
ent can speak advisedly. If I had never assumed 
this responsibility and experienced the love a 
parent has for his children, it would be far from 
me to write this lecture, but having had the ex¬ 
perience and know whereof I speak. The great¬ 
est incentive I have in writing this lecture is, if 
possible, to protect the little jewels, (God bless 
them,) from; the evil things of life and help them 
to get their inherent rights. If 1 succeed even in 
the limited way, in doing this, I will be well paid 
for my services. 


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The common occurrence of people telling' 
their children booger-bear stories to frighten 
them into being good, has proven fatal in num¬ 
bers of cases. Children should not be raised this 
way. When they grow older they will know you 
were not telling them the truth, and they will 
have less confidence in you. 

Be honest with yourself and those around 
you, is the first lesson we learn in Psychology. 
Scarey stories have their origin in the material 
mind and are foreign to the nature of the soul 
mind. It is the storehouse of facts, not fiction. 

A mother is responsible, to some extent at 
least, for the nature and inclination of her off¬ 
spring. We inherit our physical being from our 
parents. This law is unchangeable. The mental 
power of a child is the result, to a great extent, 
of the m ( ental activities of the mother and the in¬ 
fluence surrounding her life during the embryon¬ 
ic period of the child. There are many times, 
things that have occurred in the mother’s life, 
from which she wants to protect her offspring 
and in her effort to do so, she causes the very 
things she tries to avoid. The only way to avoid 
a thing of this kind, is for the mother to forget 
it and never allow her mind to entertain such 
thoughts. Let thoughts of the things you want 
to govern the life of your child, be the predom¬ 
inating thoughts in your mind and you will ac¬ 
complish the things you desire in your offspring. 


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This branch of psychology should be taught daily 
to the coming generation. It is one of the most 
important studies for young mothers, because by 
their thoughts and actions hangs the destiny of 
the world in the near future. 

There should be schools established by the 
government where all young women could re¬ 
ceive the necessary instructions on this subject, 
free of charge. A school of this nature would be 
the greatest blessing to humanity; it would be 
the means of raising the standard far above the 
present mode of living. There is a great deal of 
information that the younger generation should 
know and there is no way provided by which they 
can obtain it, until it is too late to be of real bene¬ 
fit to them. 

The low material side of life is responsible 
for the multitude of diseases which are making 
life miserable today and will attack men and wo¬ 
men, unless there is some means provided to save 
them from, the polluting influence all along their 
pathway. In people of this nature, you will find 
the avenues in the brain which, supplies the ani¬ 
mal nature well developed. It will lead people 
to degradation and ruin and is responsible for all 
the crimes that this material universe is cursed 
with. 

The impression made upon minds of children 
while they are young will stay with them during 
their entire life. If you tell your child he is bad 


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he will believe you because you are the one he 
looks to for instruction. 

The parents are supreme beings in the mind 
of a child. If you tell him he is bad, he will get 
the idea in his mind that he is, and he will think 
that every one else thinks the same thing, and as 
he grows older he will look back and see that he 
was a good, clean, innocent child when he was 
told that he was bad. 

A child should never be told that he is bad. 
It makes the wrong impression upon him or in 
other words, it is the wrong suggestion to give 
him. If he does the wrong thing, do not tell him 
he is bad, but explain to him fully what he should 
do and why he should do it. A child will not 
take a thing for granted, because he is not capa¬ 
ble of reasoning a thing out for himself. He 
must depend upon some one else to do that for 
him. If you will tell him in the right way, what 
is right and go into detail, as though you were 
making a deal where thousands of dollars were 
involved, you would perhaps save your child 
from a life of ruin and yourself from many hours 
of bitter agony. 

The future destiny of a child is worth more 
to you than great riches and why a parent can¬ 
not see this, seems strange. It looks like a per¬ 
son with even a small amount of conscientious¬ 
ness would have the good of his own child at 
heart to the extent that he would give him a rea- 


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sonable show for his life. 

You may take two boys in infancy, who are 
equal physically and mentally and tell one of 
them that he is a good boy and that he will be 
able to accomplish great things, and that there 
is no reason why he should not be equal to the 
best. As he grows up, you will see him striving 
to master his studies. He will climb the ladder 
of fame step by step because he has had the pro¬ 
per influence from the very beginning of his life. 

A child will cling to, and love the one who 
gives him the right kind of encouragement and 
he will trust them' with all of his little childhood 
troubles and secrets, because he has found a real 
friend in you. 

Then you can take the other boy and tell 
him he is a bad boy and every time he does the 
wrong thing, give him a genteel thrashing with¬ 
out going into detail as to why you did, only tell 
him he is the worst boy you ever had anything to 
do with, and perhaps he is not half as mean as 
you are, but you beat him up because you feel 
like doing it. He will begin to feel that there is 
no place for him to fill and that he is here for no 
other purpose only] to be in the way or for some 
one to take their revenge out on, so he drifts on 
and on until he wonders why he was ever born. 
He will feel like be was in the way and perhaps 
he will become serious enough to cause his own 
destruction. This is the result of the wrong kind 


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of start given him in his infancy. 

I wish I could find words to construct a sen¬ 
tence that would express my opinion of people 
who will deprive a little child of his heritage 
which entitles him to proper care. Perhaps I 
would be able to protect the innocent boys and 
girls and at least give them a chance for their 
lives. They would all make good under proper 
influences. 

Raising children properly is a phenomenon 
that will never be solved to the satisfaction of 
even the better class of people. If people through 
the application of Psychology, would gain con¬ 
trol of themselves, it would enable them to do the 
proper thing under any and all circumstances. 

If mothers were under the proper environ¬ 
ment during the embryonic period of the child’s 
development, fully two-thirds of the task of rais¬ 
ing them would disappear and the great problem 
which at times is nerve racking, would be a pleas¬ 
ure instead. Under the present condition of af¬ 
fairs, fully one-half of the trouble could be avoid¬ 
ed by making your child a companion. I am 
sure you could not find any better company than 
an innocent little fellow who is constantly in need 
of your care and attention. 

If a child does something wrong, never tell 
him that he knows better. Leave that to his con¬ 
science. Act and talk to him in a way that would 
lead him to believe that you thought that he did 


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not know he was doing the wrong thing. He will 
listen to you and will do everything in his power 
to keep you thinking that he did not know he 
was doing wrong. 

You can change a child’s entire manner of 
living and thinking by appealing to him in this 
way. It will cause him to have a better opinion 
of himself and he will make the effort of his life 
to get right and stay right. When children are 
started in life this way, they will develop into 
strong men and women and will make their pre¬ 
sence felt for good. In this way, you arouse the 
psychic nature in them. The other way will 
bring out the material nature. 

When we consider the future responsibility 
of the coming generation, and knowing that our 
government will soon be upon their shoulders, it 
behooves us to prepare them for this great res¬ 
ponsibility by training them so that they will be 
able to rule in kindness, yet with a firm hand. 
They will be inclined to deal out justice in the 
same manner in which it was given to them, 
whether it be in love and mercy or in a fit of an¬ 
ger to try to. get revenge for the things they suff¬ 
ered during their childhood days. 

It is a true saying, “That whatsoever a man 
sows, that shall he also reap.” If we punish lit¬ 
tle innocent children when they do not know, 
nor understand the nature of the act for which 
they are being punished, they will resent it in 


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some way in future years. 

If you raise a child in the way it should go, 
in kindness and love, it is seldom that it will de¬ 
part from that way. People take too much for 
granted in children. It takes time and patience 
to get a child to see the necessity of a thing. We 
make this mistake often in grown people that 
have had years of Experience and still they are 
unable to see and understand a thing when it is 
explained to them] in the simplest kind of lan¬ 
guage. 

Yet they will punish children for not being 
able to grasp the meaning of things. Give them 
a chance for their lives and they will make good 
when they are able to know good from evil. 
When y<ou deprive a child of things he likes that 
are harmless and your neighbors’ children are 
permitted to have them, they will wish that they 
had parents like the other children. 

At first sight, this looks like a small matter, 
but the child who is deprived of these little harm¬ 
less pleasures, deep down in his heart there is a 
process which will continue to grow stronger and 
stronger until he will become jealous of other 
children and when he reaches manhood, this pro¬ 
cess has become a part of his very nature and he 
is unable to control it and he reaches the point 
where at times he become insane, and in a fit of 
jealousy his reason will become dethroned to 


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the extent that he will take the life of his fellow- 
man. 

This process has a very small beginning 
which could have been avoided by letting him 
have a little freedom which in all probability 
would have been better for him physically and 
mentally during his childhood days and would 
have set in motion a process of development that 
in manhood would be a blessing to humanity in 
applying the principles of Psychology to the lives 
of men and women at the opportune time and 
leading them to a higher and nobler plane of life 
where freedom reigns supreme, where jealousy, 
hatred, vice and greed have no abiding place. 

There are a few children born with an in¬ 
clination to a downward trend of life, but the per 
cent is very small and this could be removed by 
the mothers during the embryonic period, be¬ 
cause this is the time in which the brain of a 
child is formed. 

If parents would treat their child like he was 
human and take him into their confidence while 
he is young, they can mould his character for 
good and when he grows up and approaches man¬ 
hood it will be an easy matter to get him to see 
the evils of things that children are allowed to 
find out for themselves to their sorrow and re¬ 
gret and are allowed to repent in bitter tears all 
alone. If he had had the proper care of a father 
or mother, who would have told him of these pit- 


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falls in all seriousness and kindness, he would 
have been able to avoid them. 

Boys and girls can be reached along this line 
of life only by those in whom they have the ut¬ 
most confidence, otherwise they will not take the 
advice in these matters seriously to the extent 
that they will heed it. 

People spend hundreds of thousands of dol¬ 
lars in tryjing to improve their hogs, cows and 
horses. Money is no object to them along this 
line. They will spend their time, money and en- 
ergy trying to secure a better grade of livestock 
to out-do their neighbors and if they succeed in 
doing so, they will brag about it for a year. If 
I had the money spent in this way, I could es¬ 
tablish and maintain a school in which to teach 
the young mothers how to improve their off¬ 
spring at least eighty per cent. If I should go be¬ 
fore the people and ask them to donate to an in¬ 
stitution of this kind, they would turn me away 
empty handed. I wish I could find some means 
of expressing my feelings in this matter, but 
words are inadequate to express the situation 
fully. 

If I can succeed in getting people to think 
seriously along this line, perhaps in years to come 
some changes may be brought about whereby the 
children will receive at least as much care and 
consideration as is given to the development of 
cats and pug-poodles. I must say, that at this 


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time, they are in the negative by a great majority. 
This is why I maintain that the material things 
of life have the supremacy over the psychic and 
will continue to be so until people can be made 
to realize the great importance of the care of 
their own offspring. 

When you become a psychologist, then the 
children will have the supremacy over the rest of 
the entire creation. 

Most people act just like a little child knew 
the meaning of the word told them without tak¬ 
ing the time and trouble to teach them their 
meaning. That you may see how ridiculous and 
unreasonable you are, I will ask you a simple 
question and will expect you to answer me with¬ 
out ary hesitancy. 

How old were you when you understood 
what the words, Father and Mother meant. Per¬ 
haps they were the first words you ever spoke, 
yet it was years afterwards before you knew the 
meaning of those two simple words And you 
will punish a child when he does not know the 
meaning of what you tell him, just because you 
are bigger than he is and can do it. 

I wonder what would happen if your little 
boy should tell you a lie and you caught him in 
it and you should tell him:—‘'Son, I am going to 
whip you for telling me that lie,” and the little 
fellow should brace up and say:—“All right 
Daddy, you can do it, you are bigger than I am. 


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I suppose you never told a lie in your life. It 
does look to me like you would pick on some one 
nearer your size. It doesn’t seem to me like you 
are giving me a square deal, Daddy. Don’t you 
think you can wait until I get to be as big as you 
are, and then it will not look so unreasonable on 
your part,” 

Can you imagine a father whipping a child 
after an appeal like that? I think it woud be a 
humane act to establish an appeal court for chil¬ 
dren where they could get their just rights. 


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PSYCHIC HEALING 

It is not necessary that we offer any argu¬ 
ment to prove the science of Psychic Healing. It 
has long been an established fact that people can 
be relieved and cured by psychic force, but it has 
been a question in the minds of many honest 
people as to how it is accomplished. 

There is only one scientific way of applying 
this method of healing, while there are many 
ways by which it is claimed to be done, yet there 
is only one. I am unable to give you the number 
of different ways by which it is claimed to be 
done, but I am able to give you the exact way by 
which it is done. If I can do that, then it is up 
to the other fellow to harmonize his method with 
the one I am giving. I have no fight to make 
against any one, if your ideas and plans please 
you, I am sure they will not interfere in the least 
with the scientific way of healing people of their 
infirmities. 

Physic Healing is a branch of Psychology, 
separate and apart from all other methods of 
healing. If we reach the scientific solution of 
this question, we will find it is through the ap¬ 
plication of the principles of Psychology, because 
our mental power is wholly dependent upon the 
soul mind to perform any act, great or small, from 
the simplest to the most profound, so it is out of 
the question for us to get away from the fact that 
Psychic Healing, of whatever nature it miay be, 


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is the application of the scientific principles of 
Psychology. 

I must speak plainly, because I do not want 
to be misunderstood on this proposition. It is by 
the application of the principles of Psychology 
that we are able to heal by psychic force. The 
only power at your command in using psychic 
healing, is your soul mind which is unlimited 
within itself, so you see you have an unlimited 
supply of intelligence at your command, if you 
will prepare yourself to use it. What more could 
any one want? What more could any one ask? 
You will never be trusted with any greater power 
than you have within yourself until you exhaust 
the power that was born in you. You will never 
live half long enough to reach your own possi¬ 
bilities. Why will people ask for more than they 
have, when they will not use what they have? 
You must prove that you can master your own 
power first. When you can do that, you will be 
perfectly satisfied with what you have. You 
would be able to accomplish many things beyond 
your fondest expectations. Your body, brain 
and material mind is the only instrument that 
you will ever be trusted with to use in practicing 
psychic healing. Your success will be equal to 
your ability to use your instrument. Every prin¬ 
ciple of Psychology that we have access to and 
the permission to use has been given to the world 
through this instrument composed of the body, 


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brain and material mind. When you reach the 
time when you can secure intelligence in any oth¬ 
er way, your work in this material universe will 
have ended. You will not be able to demonstrate 
that fact to us, because the great wall of thought 
will intervene between us and you could not if 
you would, neither would you, if you could. 

Let me have my instrument with intelligence 
to use it scientifically and I will be satisfied. 
When you have prepared the channel through 
which the soul mind transmits its intelligense to 
the material mind, you will be prepared to secure 
results by the science of psychic healing. Your 
success will be equal to your instrument. 

If people would prepare themselves for this 
kind of work, so they could work intelligently* 
they would be far more successful than they are 
at the present time. If you are able to relieve 
suffering humanity, the power to do so, will be in 
you. Do not try to fool yourself by thinking it 
is accomplished some other way. 

A Psychologist knows how psychic healing 
is operated and will know the source from which 
it emanates will be given the proper and due cre¬ 
dit. When you claim; to be able to relieve hu¬ 
manity of their ills in any other way, you are as¬ 
suming something that you have no means of 
proving to be correct. You are working without 
any knowledge on your part. You may say that 
it is a matter of faith on your part. That would 


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be permissible on the part of the one receiving 
the benefits, but on the part of the operator, he 
must have evidence upon which to base his faith. 
That evidence must be superior to the material 
mind of man. It must be of the nature and kind 
that leaves no room for doubt. It must be con¬ 
vincing within itself. This being true, it will 
elimjinate forever all methods of healing, inde¬ 
pendent of the power of the soul mind, because 
that is the only power we are able to manifest 
through our material instrument. 

Your thinking that healing of any nature can 
be accomplished in any other way, is by no means 
proof that it can be done. Your own being is the 
only being within your power to operate. It is 
the only being that you have the inherent right 
to exercise at will and it is the only being through 
which you will ever be able to perform psychic 
healing of any nature. 

If the Supreme Being should perform the 
work through you, then He would be subject to 
your will and would be inferior to you. If He 
should intercede for you, (which I maintain He 
will not do) then why should He burden Himself 
in the act with a person who is not subject to 
His will. Your very action in the matter shows 
that you consider yourself superior to Him, when 
you presume to give Him orders to heal any one. 
He is not subject to your orders, neither will He 
grant your request in performing an act of any 


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nature. You were born with intelligence enough 
to perform work of this nature without trying to 
make the Supreme Being appear in the eyes of 
the people to be inferior to your will and that He 
is subject to your beck and call. 

The time has arrived, when people demand 
the truth relative to these matters. As long as 
people are able to mystify things of this nature, 
the better it pleases them. They seem to think 
that they appear greater in the minds of the peo¬ 
ple. It is my purpose in these lectures to remove 
the mysteries surrounding this subject and give 
you a clear insight as to what really occurs when 
performing acts of this nature. 

Perhaps it would be well at this point to 
state that I believe in a Supreme Being. If I did 
not, I could never be a Psychologist. To deny 
one is to deny the other. I could not accept any¬ 
thing as being true, that is not in harmony with 
the intelligence of the Supreme Being. Neither 
would I reject anything in harmony with His 
promises. I am not ignorant of the limits He 
placed around his promises, neither do I believe 
He will go beyond that which He has given us, to 
do good or evil for any one. All things beings 
equal, I do not believe, Hd is a respector of per¬ 
sons. I do not believe that He is in any way re¬ 
sponsible for our success or failures. I believe 
that every human being is born with a soul and 


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soul mind if permitted to enter this material uni¬ 
verse normially. 

The development of your brain is responsi¬ 
ble for your success or failure. Your environ¬ 
ment to a great extent, is responsible for your de¬ 
velopment, which supplies the entire field in 
which your material mind operates in performing 
every act of your life. Your possibilities are 
equal to the development of your brain, this also 
supplies the channel through which the soul mind 
transmits intelligence to your material mind. 
Your entire life is just what your brain indicates 
that it is; beyond this, you will never be permitt¬ 
ed to go, unless you keep the process of develop¬ 
ment active which will increase your power to 
act equal to the development of your brain. No 
one has ever been able to demonstrate his ability 
to act beyond the development of his brain. No 
one has ever been able to relieve a person of any 
abnormal condition independent of the use of the 
brain. 

It is entirely out of the question to think that 
you can bring about a change of any nature with¬ 
out the use of every part of your instrument. You 
must first learn yourself; the purpose each part 
performs in the use of psychic healing before you 
will be able to work intelligently. If you have 
believed that it could be performed in any other 
way, it will be better for you to eliminate it from 
your mind, because it will only be a hinderance 


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to you in your study of Psychology. Truth can¬ 
not differ from, the truth and still be the truth. If 
you will keep that thought in your mind and try 
each doubtful question by the genuine article, 
you will seldom be misled in your solutions. To 
arrive at a proper understanding of a question, it 
is necessary to free it of everything that in any 
way will serve to cloud our minds and cause us 
to lose sight of the important facts in the case. 
This I have tried to do with no selfish purpose 
on my part, because I have no other purpose in 
view, only to lead you into the true light by lay¬ 
ing a foundation upon which to build our future 
moral and scientific edifice, one that will stand 
the test of time and be a blessing to the human 
family. 

The soul mind is the only medium that can 
transmit messages from mind to mind, for the 
purpose of restoring some one to health and hap¬ 
piness. The soul mind is the beginning and end 
of every act performed by psychic healing. This 
is the one you must appeal to when in need of as¬ 
sistance. It is unlimited in its power to assist 
you and will accomplish all for you that you will 
make it possible for it to do. You can extend its 
possibilities by enlarging the field in which your 
material mind operates. This you can do by de¬ 
veloping the avenues of your brain. By this pro¬ 
cess, the entire preparation for work of this na¬ 
ture rests upon you. If you will make the effort 


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to prepare yourself, you can become proficient in 
the use of psychic healing. A desire on your 
part is necessary to the development of the brain, 
then you must apply yourself to a study of the 
principles used in preparing your messages and 
the way they are delivered to your soul mind. 
This part of the work is performed by your ma¬ 
terial mind. 

From a material standpoint, you know very 
little about the workings of the brain. It is not 
necessary that you should know how the material 
mind operates in the brain, but you must know 
enough about the process to work intelligently. 
If you know how to set the scientific law in mo¬ 
tion, your work will not be indefinite. It is ne¬ 
cessary that you learn how to word your mess¬ 
ages so they will be definite and to the point. As 
the soul mind will not deduct anything from 
them, because it is not the purpose of the soul 
mind to arrange the messages, but to take them 
just as you have arranged them; its part of the 
work is to deliver them for you. If your message 
is indefinite and burdened with too many words, 
the results will be greatly lessened. All messages 
should be short and to the point to secure results. 

You should never use the word pain or sick¬ 
ness, in your message. Always say what you 
want in the place of that which is causing trou¬ 
ble. Always write your message on paper. Look 
it over closely to see if every word is needed to 


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express what you want to say. When you are 
satisfied with it, commit it to memory; then close 
your eyes and speak to your soul mind just as 
though you were talking to a friend and ask it to 
deliver a message for you to the soul mind of 
John Doe at 2:30 A. M., then repeat your mess¬ 
age. You may give your instructions as follows: 
“I would like for this message to be delivered to 
his soul mind and that his soul mind apply It to 
his body,” then you may tell the purpose for 
which the message is being sent. Then request 
that its application to his body be continued un¬ 
til the desired results are obtained. 

When you have completed this part of your 
work, your material mind is through with its part 
of the work. You may retire at your usual time. 
Sleep and take your rest. Your soul mind will de¬ 
liver your message at the time you suggested to¬ 
gether with your instruction and his soul mind 
will apply the message to his body for the pur¬ 
pose of relieving him of his physical trouble and 
will continue its application the length of time 
you requested in your message. 

A message sent in this way with a determin¬ 
ation on your part to relieve your patient, will 
reach him and will begin its work at once. If 
you do not get the desired results, do not get dis¬ 
couraged, prepare another one and send it in the 
same manner. A doubt on your part will always 
weaken the power of your message to accomplish 


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the purpose for which you sent it. It is not ne¬ 
cessary that your patient should know you sent 
the message. Sometimes it is best that he does 
not know it unless it is his desire to be treated in 
that way, then you should tell him that you are 
going to treat him in that manner. A patient 
will always do better if you will give him the kind 
of treatment he wants. It will relieve his mind, 
to say the least. 

You may sit down by a person with a tem¬ 
perature of a hundred and three degrees, take 
him by the wrist so you can count his pulse, then 
concentrate your mind on him with the thought 
that his temperature will be reduced to normal; 
hold that thought for fifteen rrynutes. At the 
end of that time, there will be no difference be¬ 
tween your pulse and his. If you are able to con¬ 
trol your pulse and keep it normal during this 
time your patient will have no fever when the fif¬ 
teen minutes expires. 

If you have never tried this method, you will 
have some temperature when the time is up, but 
you will soon learn to control yourself so that it 
will have no effect upon you. 

If some one should call you and tell you 
some member of the family] had a high fever and 
ask you to come at once; if you will concentrate 
your mind on the one who has the fever for one 
minute before starting and then hold that 
thought while going; if it should take you fifteen 


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minutes to get there, the fever will be gone when 
you arrive, unless the fever should be caused 
from some serious troubles in the body. Even 
if that is the case, it will be greatly reduced by 
the time you arrive. I have tested this many 
times and I have never failed to get the desired 
results. I have had them to tell me when I ar¬ 
rived that it was all a false alarm that the fever 
was gone. 

Sometimes you cannot make them believe 
that you caused the fever to leave. Some people 
will not believe that this can be done even though 
they should see it with their own eyes. The pow¬ 
er to do this is in every one, if they will prepare 
themselves by a proper development of their 
brain to the extent that the soul mind can trans¬ 
mit this power to your patient through your ma¬ 
terial mind. 

You are in possession of more power to re¬ 
lieve suffering humanity than you will ever be 
able to use. The greater your ability to do 
things, the greater the amount of power you are 
able to attract to you. You have all the assist¬ 
ance you need at your command if you knew how 
to use it. It seems strange why some people are 
continually asking for more power to accomplish 
things, when they are not making use of what 
they were born with. Undoubtedly, they are not 
satisfied with what the Creator has given them. 


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If they could see themselves as He sees them, 
they would be utterly ashamed of themselves. 
They would get busy and use what nature has 
given them and be satisfied to be useful instead 
of ordering the Supreme Being to do it for them. 
I wonder what they think they are anyway to be 
telling Him what to do instead of submitting 
themselves to His will and let Him direct them. 

If you will make yourself useful, you will be 
able to do a great deal more good and become a 
blessing to humanity instead of a drone. Make 
up your mind that you can do things and that you 
will make your presence felt for good. When 
you do this, the life force will go bounding 
through your entire being and you will feel like 
you were able to accomplish anything within the 
power of a human being. Then go at it in + he 
right way, by preparing the way by which your 
soul mind can help you and you will be astonish¬ 
ed at the results you will be able to get. Be a 
live wire and your presence will be felt far and 
wide. But you must be sure to keep yourself 
well balanced or your career will be of short dur¬ 
ation. 

If you are treating a patient by suggestion, 
always be positive in what you say or do. Ev¬ 
ery movement of your entire being is a sugges¬ 
tion. Sometimes your actions will influence your 
patient more than what you are saying. Place 
yourself on the same plane of life that your pa- 


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tient lives and acts upon, this will reach him 
quicker than anything else that you can do. You 
must be able to tell from looking at hinii his na¬ 
tural inclinations. This you will be able to tell 
from the development of his brain. When you 
get him located in this way, you must know now 
to adjust yourself to his plane of living. When 
you do this, you are in tune with him. This will 
bring about a harmony between you and your 
patient that you cannot secure in any other man¬ 
ner. His plane of life may not suit your way of 
thinking, but you must put up with it, at least, 
whde you are giving him treatment 

In this one act lies the success and failure in 
every profession of life. In order to be able to 
do this, you must know yourself. When you have 
learned how to control yourself, you will know 
how to reach the other fellow. This is why it is 
necessary for a person in the study of Psychology 
to have a working knowledge of every part of his 
instrument. The body, brain and material mind 
composes the instrument with which you must 
deal in every branch of Psychology. If you do 
not have a working knowledge of these, you will 
never be able to get very far in the application of 
this science. 

You should begin at the foundation of every 
study. If you begin at the top and come down, 
as most of them try to do, you will find that you 
have no foundation to stand on, neither will you 


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be able to operate intelligently. Psychic Heal¬ 
ing is no exception to the rule. You cannot send 
the message out and let it find its way to your 
patient. You must direct it through the proper 
channels to its destination. The material mind 
has control of the entire process in formulating 
the plans and messages in operating Psychic 
Healing. It selects the patient; the hour for 
treatment; the wording of the message and the 
instructions accompanying the message; by it 
you determine everything in connection with the 
treatment. When that has all been accomplish¬ 
ed, your material mind is through with its part of 
the work. The soul mind transmits the mess¬ 
age to your patient together with your instruc¬ 
tions. Your patient’s soul mind receives it from 
your soul mind and applies it to that part of his 
body which you instructed it to be applied. 

In sending a message to some one to cause 
him to change his mind, it is prepared and sent 
in the same manner as the one sent for healing 
purposes with the exception of the instruction. 
A message for this purpose is transmitted to his 
soul mind and is given by it to his material mind 
and it will act upon it. His material mind will 
consider the thought in your message and if he 
can comply with your wishes and protect himself 
he will do so. In sending messages of this na¬ 
ture, you must consider well the interest of the 
one to whom you are sending it. The soul mind 


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will not receive and apply a message that will in 
any way endanger the life of the one to whom it 
is sent. 

The soul mind of a person will always pro¬ 
tect him against any approaching danger. This 
is the reason why you get warning of dangers 
that are coming your way. 

Messages sent to relieve people are applied 
to their body by their soul mind and really re¬ 
move the obstructions that are causing the dis¬ 
turbance. All of the processes in the body and 
brain are under the direction of the soul mind 
and it will keep them working normally if allow¬ 
ed to do so, but the material m'ind is constantly 
interfering with its work. The material mind 
knows very little about what is going on in the 
body. It has been taught that it should see af¬ 
ter everything in the body and for this reason, it 
is continually causing trouble by trying to do 
that which nature never intended it should do. 
If nature had intended for it to care for these, we 
would have been born with a perfect knowledge 
of every process in our bodies, because we need¬ 
ed assistance just as badly the first hour of our 
lives as we have any hour since. 

The results obtained in psychic healing, are 
secured wholly by the soul mind. It is the only 
part of a human being that possesses the intelli¬ 
gence to bring about changes in the various pro¬ 
cesses in our bodies. It will secure all of the ne- 


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cessary changes if we will trust it to do so. 

It is the soul mind that keeps the heart beat¬ 
ing while you are wrapt in deep slumber, taking 
your much needed rest. Your material mind 
sleeps also and takes its rest, so it will be able to 
serve you during the following day. It has no 
other purpose, than to serve you while you are 
awake. It has no other life to live, but the pre¬ 
sent one. When the brain becomes impaired, it 
becomes indefinite. It serves you just the same 
whether you are a Psychologist or a Materialist; 
whether you are an Atheist or a believer in a Su¬ 
preme Being; whether you have any real purpose 
in life or just drifting with the tide of time. 

It matters not what your purpose of life may 
be, it serves you just the same. It is what you 
and your environment have made it. 

When your body and brain return to their 
former state of existence and may perhaps be 
transformed into some other form of life, your 
material mind will cease to exist as an organized 
entity. It does not preserve our identity. It is 
a part of our material instrument through which 
we are able to accomplish the purpose the Crea¬ 
tor intended we should as living, active human 
beings. This entire material instrument is sub¬ 
ject to the soul mind, through which it transmits 
its intelligence. It transmits our messages and 
governs their application as we may direct. It is 
not dependent upon the body for its existence or 


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power to operate. From it we receive all the in¬ 
telligence that we are capable of manifesting at 
any time during our entire life. It preserves 
your identity for future reference, whether good 
or evil. It never undergoes any change before 
or after we pass beyond the great wall of thought. 
It is never transposed into any form of life, be¬ 
cause it is not susceptible to transmutation. It 
is indestructible and unending. It is a part of 
the Great Soul from which all souls emanate. 

It is your soul mind that carries your peti¬ 
tions to Deity and pleads your cause in the Su¬ 
preme Court of Justice and Mercy. It is the only 
part of your being capable of filling this office. 
If it is capable of serving you in this capacity, 
why will you doubt its ability to serve you in re¬ 
moving abnormal conditions in the human body 
which are of a temporal nature, when it is cap¬ 
able of dealing with things that are eternal and 
unending, things that are beyond the power of the 
material mind to comprehend. It can and will 
relieve suffering humanity, if you will apply it 
scientifically. This you can learn to do by a 
study of the principles of Psychology. 

Faith is absolutely necessary on your part in 
operating Psychic Healing. You must have evi¬ 
dence strong enough to produce faith in you be¬ 
fore you can have faith, otherwise, you would 
have no foundation upon which to base your 
faith. The evidence I have given you is not a 


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phantom of my mind, but are facts that have been 
demonstrated to the entire satisfaction of those 
who have witnessed the application and results 
obtained in this way. It has long since passed the 
experimental stage. Thousands of people can 
testify to the truthfulness of this statement. 

People are expecting greater developments 
along the line of psychic influences than any oth¬ 
er. They know that in order to be successful in 
any line of business one must be physically fit to 
render first class service. 

Psychic healing does not require that a per¬ 
son must cease his labors in order to be restored 
to health. This process of healing will work un¬ 
der all conditions, whether your work is physical 
or mental. In passing from an abnormal to a 
normal condition under this method of treatment 
one does not become weak and exhausted, which 
occurs under most all other methods used in 
treating people. A person will experience no 
unpleasant feeling from psychic healing. It re¬ 
lieves the mind and relaxes the tissues of the 
body. When this occurs nature will take 
charge of the processes in the body and eliminate 
the cause of the disturbance. It works twenty- 
-ch day until you are relieved of 
your aches and pains. 

You may think that this is too good to be 
true, yet it is as true as it is good. The minds 
of people have been influenced by material things 


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until it requires a great effort on their part to. 
evolve to a plane of life where they have access 
to the greater things which come to them only 
through a proper application of the principles of 
Psychology. On this plane of life the material 
things cease to predominate and control our 
thoughts and actions. 

People for years have been striving to reach 
a plane of life where they could be happy and 
contented. The greatest hinderance to them; has 
been a lack of unity among themselves. Each 
one wants the other fellow to believe and work 
his way. All to a great extent have lost sight of 
the fact that perfect harmony must prevail in 
every branch of Psychology. Not only is that 
true, there must be perfect harmony between 
each branch of Psychology. Harmony is the pe¬ 
culiar trait by which you can identify Psychol¬ 
ogy in everything. I have not told you all that 
could be said by any means, but I trust this is 
sufficient for our present needs. 


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NOW AND THEN 

What would it profit us if we labor year in 
and year out with the thought in mind that when 
our summons comes for us to lay aside our work¬ 
ing tools of life and wrap our mantle about us 
and approach it as a slave slowly steps to the 
place of his execution without one ray of hope 
for future existence. I know this is a dark pic¬ 
ture to place before you, but if thousands of our 
fellow-travelers are giving to us a true statement 
of their belief on this question, this is all they 
have to offer us as a future reward for having 
lived on this terrestrial sphere. 

I admit that a life well lived here is well 
worth the effort put forth in doing so. That 
many acts of an honest and just man will live on 
and on after he has passed beyond this veil of 
tears. Every one will be rewarded here for their 
deeds of kindness if they limit them to the circle 
of their friends and loved ones. But this solu¬ 
tion of life’s problem is entirely too limited. 
When we begin to unfold the problem of human 
life, we find that these limitations are entirely to 
inadequate for our purposes. The human brain 
alone will carry us above and beyond all limits 
of this nature. The human brain is capable of 
performing acts that this material universe is 
wholly incapable of supplying a suitable reward 
for such service. 


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If the human brain has evolved to this high 
standard of accomplishment, there must of ne¬ 
cessity be some source of reward above and be¬ 
yond its sphere of operation. Away down deep 
in my soul I believe that every human being who 
has the proper use of his mind in his sober mo¬ 
ments of meditation will admit to himself that 
there is more than a few fleeting years on this 
plane of life. He may not admit it publicly, but 
his better nature tells him that this is not all that 
there is to human life. 

I have heard people make statements about 
Deity that I would not dare to whisper if I was 
alone and knew there was not a living being 
within a thousand miles of me. Yet I believe 
those men believe their statements are untrue. 
The soul of a human being can never become 
dwarfed to the extent that it will not warn him 
of its presence during his sojourn on earth. He 
may be able to develop an antagonistic feeling 
against any future existence to the extent that it 
will predominate the better influences of his soul 
mind. There is a time in every one’s life when 
the sound of the wings of the death angel will 
cause those unholy thoughts and inclinations to 
fade away like the sun chases the shadows of 
night from the horizon. 

There are many propositions with which you 
must deal in your study of Psychology, when 
you are brought face to face with them you will 


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admit that they are true rather than risk your re¬ 
putation by denying them. You cannot have a 
positive without a negative. The very existence 
of a positive is proof that there is a negative, it is 
impossible for one to exist without the other or 
you could not prove one without the other. 

You cannot have death without life. One is 
opposite to the other. In the absence of one you 
could not prove the other. If death is eternal 
then life must be eternal or they could not both 
apply to the same thing. “Things that are equal 
to the same thing, are equal to each other.” This 
brings us to another proposition. You say that 
this life is a temporal life. By that statement 
you indicate that there is a life that is eternal be¬ 
cause we cannot have one without the other. The 
life we are now living is a temporal one. The 
existence of one is positive proof of the other, 
then it is necessary that we settle the purpose of 
death. It is a transition from one to the other or 
it is that which intervenes between temporal and 
eternal life. 

Temporal life is exercised by us in our ma¬ 
terial bodies. By the rule we have adopted with 
reference to negative and positive relations, 
which I maintain will hold good under all cir¬ 
cumstances. If there are mortal bodies, there 
are immortal bodies. The existence of one is 
conclusive proof that the other exists. You can¬ 
not doubt this and be a Psychologist. The im- 


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mortality of the soul is one of the basic principles 
of Psychology. We are living in the Now. This 
is the time allotted to us to prepare ourselves for 
Eternity. This is the time in which we enjoy 
temporal life; the time in which we should use 
every available means within our reach in pre¬ 
paring ourselves to perform the duties we owe 
to ourselves and to our fellowmen. We should 
not sit and idle our time away. A drone in the 
bee-hive of time is only a hinderence to those 
who are trying to solve the great and important 
problems of life; those who are striving to brigh¬ 
ten the lives of the unfortunate. Now is the 
time for us to improve our talents and double 
their value. If it is only a little act of kindness; 
a little message that will brighten the life of 
some poor unfortunate person; just a helping 
hand to some one who has fallen by the wayside; 
just a cup of water to cool the parched lip and 
quench their thirst; just a little smile to him 
whose life is dark and dreary. 

By doing these things, you will be preparing 
yourself to accomplish greater things. The 
greater your accomplishment the greater you 
will appreciate having done them. Look well to 
the little things of life and the big ones will not 
be overlooked. Time is a period in which we 
may strive to master the science of Psychology. 
It is the only thing that will tell how well we 
have succeeded. The only time we can claim as 


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our own is Now. This material universe is full 
of disappointments and many of our fellow- 
travelers are passing to the great beyond with 
apparently no warning, while their future pros¬ 
pects were bright, but yesterday. They have 
laid aside the cares of yesterday and entered 
Eternity; they have exchanged their mortal for 
immortality; it was temporal life yesterday, to¬ 
day it is eternal life. It is only through the gate 
of death we reach the immortal and unending 
state of life. THEN we will enter the Day for 
which all other days were made. The home of 
the soul. On that plane of life Psychology will 
be the Universal principle governing the life of 
every one. While we live on this material plane 
of life Psychology will give us just a faint in¬ 
sight to our future state of existence. This 
knowledge comes to us from our souls, which is a 
part of the Great Soul, if we prepare the channels 
through which the soul transmits this intelli¬ 
gence. 

We have an unlimited amount of external 
evidence relative to the Great Beyond. There is 
no excuse for any one being uninformed along 
this line. While we are striving to solve the 
great problems of life to enable us to understand 
why we are here and how we came here. It 
would be far better to use this energy in trying 
to solve our future state of existence. We all 
have a very good working knowledge of the 


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NOW, but how is your stock of knowledge about 
the THEN? 

If one side of this proposition is true the 
other side cannot be otherwise. To deny one is 
to deny both. The material side is not question¬ 
ed by any, so far as I know, if you will let them 
qualify what they mean by material life. If you 
admit that there is material life, then you must 
admit that there is a life which is not material or 
you will have to produce a pencil with only one 
end to it. If you say that we have immortal 
beings, but deny that we have mortal beings you 
meet with the same obstructions. You cannot 
have a positive without a negative. If you admit 
one, you are hopelessly lost for a foundation upon 
which to stand unless you admit both. The idea 
of trying to sail across the stream of time in a 
boat with only one end to it will never get you 
anywhere with those who demand facts instead 
of what you may think about it. One extreme 
is just as safe as the other, but neither of them 
will buy you anything here or hereafter. You 
must have a mortal body or you will never be 
able to exchange it for an immortal one. That 
“this mortal must put on immortality” is a state¬ 
ment believed by all who expect to enter the 
Great Beyond justified from their mistake of 
this present life. If we exchange “this mortal 
for immortality,” then we will exchange this 
temporal life for a life that is eternal. If there 


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is a temporal there is an eternal. Time, temporal 
and mortal belong to the NOW. Eternal, Im¬ 
material and Immortal belong to the THEN. 
Life has to do with both sides and is separated 
by what we call death. 

The Now is composed of the negatives. The 
THEN is composed of the positives. Death sep¬ 
arates the NOWS from the THEN. In under¬ 
going this transition, we lay aside the NOW 
with all its sadness, sorrow and disappointment 
and enter the Great Beyond where happiness 
reigns supreme; where the soul will live unlimit¬ 
ed in knowledge and wisdom, the soul undergoes 
no change, while we cross the Great Divide. 

If the human being is all the evidence we 
have of a future existence, (which is not true), 
we would have evidence which could never be 
disproven. Man is endowed with certain avenues 
in his brain which he is capable of developing to 
the extent that he can become proficient in us¬ 
ing them, that would be superfluous and would be 
the means of an untold amount of energy being 
wasted if there is no life for him to live beyond 
this present state of existence. These avenues 
are used by the soul mind of man for the purpose 
of giving to the world the principles of Psychol¬ 
ogy. In the absence of these avenues in the 
brain, we would never know that there was such 
a science as that of Psychology. Man would 
never be able to evolve above the low material 


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plane of life where strife, hatred and greed pre¬ 
dominate their lives; where justice, mercy and 
goodness would be unknown. Man has possess¬ 
ed these avenues ever since the earliest dawn of 
his existence as a man. There is only one source 
from which they could have emanated; there is 
only one Being capable of producing them and 
that is Deity. There is no fountain from! which 
they could emanate on this material plane of life. 
No other living creatures on this plane of life 
possess those avenues, neither are they capable 
of using them. This being true no other living 
creature could have transmitted the power to ex¬ 
ercise this intelligence to man. No other living 
creature possesses the kind of tissue to which a 
soul can be blended. No living being can trans¬ 
mit that which they do not possess to any other 
being. This being scientifically true, man could 
not have received the kind of tissue possessed by 
him from any other being. 


Human tissue is the only tissue in the realm 
of material life capable of being blended with the 
soul. The fact that man has a soul and the in¬ 
telligence to reason upon a plane of life far above 
all other beings and whose right to do so has nev¬ 
er been questioned is conclusive proof that he is 
endowed with a superior nature and the intelli¬ 
gence to exercise it over the entire material uni¬ 
verse. 


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By means of the avenues of the brain, man 
is capable of reasoning upon questions that have 
to do with time and Eternity; temporal and Eter¬ 
nal; mortal and immortal. In his reasoning he 
is not confined to this material plane of life, but 
he can reason upon questions that are Eternal 
and unending with profound accuracy which 
proves beyond a doubt that he is capacitated to 
enjoy the things prepared for him in the Great 
Beyond. The human evidence we have of these 
things is transmitted by the soul mind through 
the avenues in the brain to the material mind and 
we are able to express theml with our material 
mind. This is the way by which we came in 
possession of the science of the soul which con¬ 
tain the principles of Psychology. This is why 
we maintain that the study of Psychology will 
evolve a person to a higher and nobler plane of 
living which will make better men and women 
and put them in closer touch with Deity. 


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HOW TO MAKE GOOD 

This question has been used in connection 
with every proposition existing or that has exist¬ 
ed in the material universe. There has been 
more nerve energy used in trying to solve it than 
any other one subject. And still people are 
wondering how it can be done. This problem is 
amenable to the principles of Psychology. If a 
proper solution of it is ever reached, it must come 
through the scientific laws of Psychology. I 
think I will be able to prove this to your entire 
satisfaction. If I fail to do so, I will have done 
more than those who have not tried to solve it 
for you. I have long since refused to allow the 
word “fail” to follow me in any work that I un¬ 
dertake. 

I am going to unfold this question step by 
step until the last limitation has been cleared 
away. Perhaps you may say that it cannot be 
done. I maintain that it can be done by the same 
rule that all other questions of importance have 
been solved. The soul mind of every one knows 
the solution to this question and can give it to 
you if you will go after it in the right way. If 
you will take the same rule that I have used in 
the preceding lectures, you can reach the solu¬ 
tion of this one. A little good common sense and 
judgment is necessary as a foundation upon 
which to build any business or profession. If 
you have that much to start with, you have the 


How To Make Good 


qualification necessary to solve any problem, 
great or small with which you are brought face 
to face in the study of Psychology. 

It is our purpose in these lectures to avoid 
everything of a mysterious nature. If we are 
not able to avoid then^ and reach our goal, then 
we will remove them as gently as we can without 
disturbing the minds of those who cherish them 
more than the scientific facts relative to the sim¬ 
plicity of the subject. A subject of this mangi- 
tude requires the unfolding of almost every prin¬ 
ciple of Psychology. It is universal in its ap¬ 
plication, which requires that the solution must 
be reached by a study of the universal principles 
of Psychology. 

What I mean by universal principles, are 
principles that apply alike to every fiian and wo¬ 
man in this material universe, so far as material 
things are concerned. Every one should have 
a desire to make good. I believe all who are 
capable of reasoning and have a normal use of 
their thinking power, have a desire to make good. 
All of the scientific principles of Psychology are 
applicable alike to every human being. Then it 
requires a knowledge of these principles on your 
part to reach a solution of this question. If you 
think you can reach it in any other way, you will 
be disappointed in the end. If we start right, it 
is possible and probable that we will end right. 
If we start wrong, we will end wrong. 


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One great advantage in being able to work 
psychically is the unlimited confidence you have 
in your ability to do things. You know that you 
have an unlimited storehouse of knowledge to 
draw on when you are in need of assistance. It 
removes the fear that so many times prevents 
you from accomplishing things that, in your own 
mind you feel capable of doing, yet you are afraid 
to attempt it. There is a pleasure in being able 
to do things when you can trust your soul mind 
to lead the way for you and unfold to you a way 
to accomplish things that seemed impossible to 
you. If you should wait until you were able to 
figure out the entire problem^ perhaps some one 
else would reap the harvest instead of you. 

You will never be able to trust your soul 
mind until you can prove to people that you can 
be trusted. This trusting proposition is not a 
one-sided affair. It will work both ways, if it wild 
work at all. You cannot trust yourself until you 
learn to be honest with yourself. If you will not 
be honest with yourself, neither would you be 
honest with others. One of the first lessons you 
must learn to be a psychologist, is to be honest 
with yourself. You can fool others, but you can¬ 
not fool yourself. You may think that you can 
fool people and get by with it. You may be able 
to do so for a time, but grief will come to you 
when you least expect it, because you have no 
foundation of your own from which to operate. 


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There is a law in Psychology that requires 
that you put something in the place of that which 
you take away. If you can replace it with some¬ 
thing better than that which you removed, well 
and good, you are on the right road. If you will 
do that every time you will make good in spite 
of what the world may say or do, but to som,e 
this may look like a losing proposition, but it is 
not. For instance, you have something to sell 
and a man offers you what you think it is worth 
and you accept his offer and the deal is made. 
He finds that you have given him a square deal, 
you have made a warm spot in that man’s heart 
for you that was not there before the deal was 
made. You may say that each got value receiv¬ 
ed. There is a friendship that did not exist be¬ 
tween you before the deal was made, so both re¬ 
ceived more than you gave. 

Perhaps there are many people who would 
like to be able to apply the principles of Psycho¬ 
logy in their dealings with their fellowman to en¬ 
able then to get the best of him when making 
a deal. If that is your idea of making good, then 
you do not want to waste your time studying 
Psychology. You should study human nature so 
you would know when you found an easy mark. 
If the other fellow was a good judge of human 
nature, then you would have a hard time fooling 
him. If a good Psychologist should come along, 
he could make a deal with either of you and ev- 


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erybody would be happy and perhaps you would 
tell your friends that you wished every one was 
as agreeable to deal with as he was. When the 
principles of Psychology are used in dealing 
with people there will be a wonderful improve¬ 
ment over our present methods of dealing. 

Selfishness and a desire to gain wealth re¬ 
gardless of the means used to obtain it, is greatly 
in the majority at this time. Wealth obtained 
in this way will not bring happiness, because 
they are expecting that sorrqe one will take it 
from them by unfair means. They are governed 
wholly by the material things of life. They are 
not capacitated to enjoy the good things that 
come their way. A person who is governed by 
the principles of Psychology is able to get at least 
some pleasure out of every transaction. If no 
more, it is a pleasure to know that you have done 
your best. How many people can say they are 
satisfied with themselves. People, as a rule, are 
not satisfied with themselves. 

Do you know how to satisfy that desire with¬ 
in you to be equal to your best neighbors and 
friends. If you really have this desire deep down 
in your soul, you can be as they are and even go 
beyond them and accomplish things they cannot 
do. You will not be able to do all this in a few 
days’ time, but you are equal to the task. 

Take an inventory of your brain and see how 
much stock you have to start with; see how much 


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brain tissue you have that is at your corrimand, 
that you can depend upon for present use. If you 
find that your stock is short, do not get discour¬ 
age, but do just as you would do if you were in 
the mercantile business. Begin at once to in¬ 
crease your stock. This you can do with the 
same accuracy as you can transact any other kind 
of business. This is purely a business transac¬ 
tion on your part and must be handled in a busi¬ 
ness way. When you are ready to proceed, tell 
your soul mind just what you are going to do and 
why you are going to do it. Mention each item 
on your list of new stock; mention the purpose 
for which you want to use each item. If your 
purpose is good, and just, your soul mind will as¬ 
sist you in every way it can to bring about your 
desired results. Be honest with yourself and 
your soul mind. 

If you are dishonest with your soul mind, 
you will never be able to accomplish very much 
through psychic influences, neither will you have 
very much confidence in your own ability to do 
things psychically. If you are honest and desire 
to be of assistance to humanity, your soul mind 
will use every means within its reach to aid you 
in preparing your field from which you must op¬ 
erate. Your brain is of more importance to you 
than anything else in your preparation, every¬ 
thing else will come to you when you have pre¬ 
pared yourself to receive it. If you want to add 


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an avenue in your brain to your stock, and place 
it at the command of your soul mind, then tell 
your soul mind what you want to use it for or 
what you want to accomplish by the use of it. 
When you retire at night, keep that line of work 
on your mind; go to sleep thinking thoughts 
along that line, and when you awaken in the 
morning start the day with the same line of 
thoughts; let them predominate in your mind, 
and before you realize what is being done your 
soul mind will be unfolding to you the very 
things you are striving to obtain, then you will 
have prepared that avenue for service and will 
have increased the field of your material mind. 

When you have completed that work, then 
you can take another line of thought and pro¬ 
ceed in the same manner. Perhaps you do not 
know just where that avenue is located in your 
brain. It is not necessary that you know, your 
soul mind knows and will take care of that part 
for you; its work is always perfect. It never 
makes a mistake. You do your part faithfully 
and it will take care of that part you do not un¬ 
derstand and can never understand. If you will 
follow these instructions, you will make good in 
your preparation to become a real Psychologist 
and will be equal to the best along the lines of 
your preparations. 

You will never be able to make good in any 
line of work unless you have the proper develop- 


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ment of your brain to assist you. When you 
stop to think about it, it takes brains to do any¬ 
thing. People have lost sight of the fact that it 
takes brains to be a Psychologist, or perhaps 
they never thought of the brain side of the pro¬ 
position. 

Preparing the brain to accomplish a certain 
line of work is just as scientific and as necessary 
as any other branch of study connected with 
Psychology. It is the foundation upon which 
rests your ability to make good in every trans¬ 
action of your life. There has never been an in¬ 
strument invented, neither will there ever be one 
that can operate without a physical basis from 
which to operate. Psychology is no exception 
to the rule, it cannot operate without a physical 
basis. The human brain is the only basis from 
which it can operate and make its intelligence 
known to us. If you fail to see the important 
office the brain fills in Psychology, then I must 
admit that you surely need more brains. 

If you have an article of merchandise you 
want to sell, concentrate your mind on the im¬ 
portance of the article; put yourself in the pros¬ 
pective buyer’s place; tell yourself all about it; 
its good qualities; go to sleep thinking about it 
and on arising continue your line of thought. Do 
this for a few days and you will find that your 
soul mind will be assisting you in your prepara¬ 
tion to make a sale. When it does con^e to your 


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aid, you will have prepared the avenue in your 
brain that will assist you in that line of work. 
Your soul mind will be able to transmit to your 
material mind any intelligence necessary to as¬ 
sist you in making a sale of that article. 

The power to know and succeed comes from 
your soul mind, but it cannot give it to you until 
you make the necessary preparation to receive it. 
Everything must be thought out in your mind be¬ 
fore you will be able to accomplish it. The ex¬ 
pression, “I did it before I thought” is not true. 
You must think before you are prepared to act 
upon any proposition that may be presented to 
you. 

Sometimes in your past life, you decided just 
what you would do under certain circumstances* 
otherwise, you would be unable to act until you 
had time to think. If you did not have the time 
to think what to do under the circumstances then 
you would surrender to the inevitable and take 
whatever might come. This is what occurs 
many times in accidents. They are caught un¬ 
prepared to act and the result is, they do not act. 
A person is absolutely helpless in a case where 
he does not have time to think, or has not in the 
past planned just what he would do under those 
circumstances. The actions of a person in cases 
of emergencies will always determline his past 
preparation in cases of this nature. 


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It is my purpose in these lectures to give you 
the scientific facts relative to the preparation ne¬ 
cessary to prepare you for any work you may be 
required to perform. I am not going to give you 
the experience of other people. If you will tell 
me what some one else did, I can tell you the 
preparation he made before he was prepared to 
accomplish what he did. Ninety-nine times out 
of a hundred they cannot tell you what they did 
in order to bring about their success. 

All normal people were born with an inclina¬ 
tion to succeed in certain lines of work, which 
will require very little preparation on their part 
to become proficient in the way they are inclined. 

A good salesman is usually considered to be 
a man who can sell a person an article whether he 
wants it or not. A salesman of this type should 
handle only staple goods, otherwise his career as 
a salesman would be of short duration. In the 
first place, a man to succeed, must be honest, not 
only with himself, but with every one with whom 
he deals; he must be a, good judge of human na¬ 
ture ; he must be able to read people quickly and 
accurately; he should be able to tell the nature 
and inclination of a stranger in thirty seconds 
and keep it up at the rate of eight hours a day. 
People learn to grade hogs, cattle and sheep that 
rapidly; many are able to grade them in less than 
half of that time. 


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If this can be done with animjals, there is no 
reason] why people should not be as proficient in 
reading human beings. I know that many peo¬ 
ple have a great deal of deception, but even with 
that they cannot change the shape and size of 
their brain nor hide the imprints upon their faces. 
There is no way by which they can deceive a 
good judge of human nature. If you are a close 
student of Psychology, you will learn to trust 
yourself. When you can do that, the fear you 
once had will leave you. Never handle goods 
that you cannot sell and be honest. When you 
reach the time that people will not trust you, nei¬ 
ther will your soul mind trust you. This is the 
reason why people who are striving for wealth 
regardless of the means used to obtain it, are not 
psychologists. They could not be, if they wish¬ 
ed. The soul mind will use the avenues you pre¬ 
pare for use, regardless of whether you are hon¬ 
est or not but if you are honest, it will assist 
you in your preparation to succeed. 

You can prepare any avenue in your brain 
for service by applying the rule I have given you. 
Do not be afraid that you will not succeed. Elim¬ 
inate that thought from your mind. You must 
have faith in your ability to do a thing, before 
you will try to do it. Let people know what you 
have to sell. If it is beans, tell them you have 
beans to sell. People will buy them. They use 
them in the best of families. If you want to sell 


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your service, tell the people what you can do. If 
you have what they need and you can prove to 
them that they need it, they will buy what you 
have if you are honest and sincere and deliver 
the goods you promised to give them. When 
you can do this, they will know that you have 
given them value received for their money. Ycu 
have not only made good, but you have made a 
life time friend, which is something’ money can¬ 
not buy. 

It is possible for one to prepare himself so 
that he can read human beings as accurately as 
the expert who grade cattle. People are much 
easier read than the animal creation. People 
who are experts in reading human nature, use it 
more for mercenary purposes than they do to ad¬ 
vance the cause of humanity. Some use it to de¬ 
ceive people and mislead them when they really 
do not know very much about human nature; 
they are dishonest in their claims; they are a 
hinderance to a scientific development in the 
study of Psychology. They are making the same 
mistake that thousands of others have, and are 
making; they take one branch of the science 
which is perhaps of the least importance and try 
to make it cover the entire field of the science and 
the result is, they make a signel failure in their 
application of the facts and are left without a 
foundation to stand upon when the search light 
of scientific truth is turned on them. They are 


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really a hinderance to scientific development in 
classifying human beings fof the purpose of ren¬ 
dering scientific service to business and profes¬ 
sional institutions. 

What the world needs today is men who are 
broadminded and impartial in their limitation of 
character; people who are willing to give due 
credit to each branch of Psychology; people who 
have no hobbies to the exclusion of other scien¬ 
tific facts; people who are willing to serve the 
public in breaking the shackles of superstition 
and get them away from black art mysteries that 
exist only in the material mind of those who are 
after your money with nothing tangible to give 
you in its place; people who will prepare them¬ 
selves by a proper development of their brains 
and lay a foundation to operate from in their ap¬ 
plication of the principles of Psychology. 

In this way, people can learn to classify peo¬ 
ple with great speed and accuracy. People of 
this class will stand any test put to them and the 
combined opposition can never overthrow them. 
They will be able to make good when they are 
put to the test. 

Every occupation that is honest is honorable, 
from the least to the greatest. One of the great¬ 
est mistakes we make is to put a man in a posi¬ 
tion that is bigger than he. When he occupies 
his seat and begins his service, his period of de¬ 
velopment ceases. His opinion of himself is 


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greater than his ability to do the work assigned 
to him. He is a failure to start with. It is like 
a man getting married. He looks and acts his 
best until he gets married and then his sweet dis¬ 
position is gone, he becomes his real self. In six 
months time, you will never think he was the 
same man. People like that should be compelled 
to “spark” all of their lives, so they would be 
good. If marriages were governed by the prin¬ 
ciples of Psychology, they would be fewer and 
better. 

It is too often the case that we find people 
filling responsible positions, that should be shov¬ 
eling coal or digging ditches; they would feel a 
great deal more at home and would perhaps make 
good at something of that kind. It takes execu¬ 
tive ability to fill a responsible position and make 
good. If a person does not possess this qualifi¬ 
cation, he will become egotistical and a great 
lover of self, and will expect people to look upon 
him as some great being. In his imagination, he 
has no equal. People of this nature are extreme¬ 
ly short of education; their brains are undevelop¬ 
ed ; they are not capacitated to become very in¬ 
tellectual. They are a wonderful success in their 
own mind, but in the minds of honest thinking 
people, they are complete failures. People of 
this nature are never trusted with any business 
but their own. When their imagination explodes 
it will be like puncturing a gas bag. “A word to 


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the wise is sufficient.” Keep your brain well 
balanced, so you will be able to see the best in¬ 
terest of others and help to lighten the burdens 
of your fellow travelers and you will never be 
lonesome. You will be living upon a plan of life 
where you can trust yourself and those with 
whom you are associated. Apply yourself to a 
study of the principles of Psychology in a way 
that will develop the avenues of your brain and 
increase your power to do good. Never allow 
yourself to use one principle to the exclusion of 
all the others and you will be able to keep your¬ 
self well balanced. 

To be able to handle people psychically in 
business is a problem but few people have solved. 
If you start out to conduct your business along 
psychological lines, you must know how to han¬ 
dle those in your employ, because they compose 
the foundation from, which you are operating. 
Upon them depends your success or failure. If 
you understand the psychic laws of child culture, 
then you are prepared to handle those in your 
service successfully. If you do not know how to 
apply those laws to them^ then you will fail in 
your efforts. Men are only great big boys. 
Most of them never get beyond that stage of life. 
Some will grow strong mentally and become real 
men and assume the responsibilities of life, but 
the grown up boys must be governed by the same 
laws used in child culture. Never allow yourself 


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to become angry and talk naughty to them, if 
you do you lose your psychic influence over them 
and it will be hard on your psychic power, and 
you will be liable to lose it, just as a man will 
lose his religion when he gets mad and talks ugly. 

If you have a boy who seems to be unable to 
make good, instruct him! in business methods. 
Perhaps his past ^environment has been such as 
to render him wholly unable to grasp things 
quickly. Do not get angry with him and dis¬ 
charge him. Many good boys have been ruined 
for life as salesmen by improper treatment at this 
stage of their life. Good salesmen are not made 
in a day or a week. If he will not try to follow 
your instructions, then he becomes a liability to 
you and you must dispose of him. Boys are just 
what their environment has made them;; their 
possibilities should not be judged by their past 
influences. 

I have met quite a few men who would make 
good statesmen, who for a lack of confidence in 
themselves, were unable to rise above the com¬ 
mon walks of life. They were model men in the 
realms of their labors, but were worthy of great¬ 
er honors, and with a little assistance in their 
boyhood days, would have made their presence 
felt for good in the world. A good Psychologist 
could have made great men of them. 

Girls cannot be governed in the same way 
that boys can. Nature has endowed each girl 


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with a certain amount of responsibility as a mat¬ 
ter of protection against the evil influences, so 
that when they reach maturity they are full 
grown women and must be treated as such. 

The brain of a woman is composed of finer 
tissues than that of a man, which permits them 
to have a higher, purer and cleaner conception of 
life than that of a man, and gives them a keener 
insight to their responsibilities as mothers of our 
nation. They are in closer touch with Infinite 
Intelligence than man. If their intellect is di¬ 
rected in the right channels, it can make an ideal 
world to live in. If it is directed in the wrong 
way, it can unbuild any nation on earth. 

If it were not for the high ideals of mother¬ 
hood our country would deteriorate and cease to 
maintain the high standard of justice between 
man and man, and lose its reverence for Deity. 
Woman is the golden chain that binds man to the 
higher and nobler plane of life. Rather than 
give up the association of the higher and purer 
class of the human race, they will strive to hold 
themselves above the low material things of life, 
to show their admiration for the greatest being 
that has ever walked the foot-stool of Deity. The 
one who above all others (save Deity) can love 
as man never loved; the one who can look into 
the very soul of her boy and see nothing but 
good; the one who will face the rugged billows 
of time and go down into the very jaws of death 


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for her offspring; the one who will go at the 
darkest hour of night, when storms rage with all 
of their fury, to rescue her boy; the one who can 
stand upon the very brink of time with a broken 
heart and tear-dimmed eyes, raising her eyes 
heavenward and pointing to the Great Beyond 
and say, “My boy is there.” 

You may take the greatness of the great; the 
wisdom of the wise, they are but dross when 
compared to a mother’s love. Those who do not 
know the love of a mother have missed the great¬ 
est blessing this world can give, and to you, per¬ 
mit me to say, perhaps it was your mother’s love 
for you that cost her her life. 

You may think that this is a long argument 
to prove my statement that girls cannot be gov¬ 
erned in the samje way that boys can. People in 
business have one rule to apply to all alike. 

From the viewpoint of a Materialist, this may 
be just and right, but from a psychic standpoint 
it will not work. If people were no more than 
animals, then they should be treated as such, but 
if they are human beings, you must respect them 
as such. 

Every business that is governed by psychic 
influences will be a success from every angle that 
you may judge it. There is a natural attraction 
to the principles of Psychology that attract peo¬ 
ple of all classes. There is an impelling force 
about it that they cannot get away from. They 


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will come to your place of business in preference 
to any other. There is some unexplainable some¬ 
thing in them* that they cannot get away from 
and they continue to come, because it is a plea¬ 
sure to be there. 

People, as a rule, do not like to deal where 
they are compelled to be on their guard every 
minute or be grafted out of their hard-earned 
cash. It shows that business people of this type 
have no confidence in those with whom they are 
dealing. People of this class can never make 
psychologists, because they are not honest with 
themselves or those with whom they are dealing. 
They think every one is trying to beat them out 
of what they have. Their wealth is a curse, in¬ 
stead of a blessing to them. If you take a per¬ 
son of this nature and put him with a bunch of 
people who are governed psychically, he will go 
insane if he is compelled to stay. The change is 
too great for him. He is wholly unable to ad¬ 
just himself to that plane of life. 

There is no common ground between a Ma¬ 
terialist and a Psychologist upon which they can 
strike hands and enjoy each other’s association 
for any great period of time, because their minds 
run in separate channels of thought that differ 
so greatly that they appear to be traveling in op¬ 
posite directions. From a scientific viewpoint, 
they differ as widely as the human brain will per¬ 
mit. 


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A man can be a Materialist and deal justly 
with his fellowman, he does not have to be dis¬ 
honest to be classified as such. A man can be 
honest with others and still be dishonest with 
himself. If he is honest in his dealings with 
other people, he deserves a better deal than he is 
giving himself in being a Materialist. I have 
known people who were avowed disbelievers in 
Deity, yet they were strictly honest in their deal¬ 
ings with their fellowman. People of this type 
are a contradiction within themselves; they are 
either mistaken in their belief or they are mis¬ 
taken in their purpose of life. I am inclined to 
believe that it is the former and not the latter. 

It is hard to understand why a man, (if he be 
a man) would deteriorate so far as to deny his 
own identity. Every principle of Psychology 
disproves their statement. These principles are 
indelibly written upon the face of every man and 
woman in this material universe. It is written 
there by their own soul mind and all of the argu¬ 
ments advanced by the combined opposition can¬ 
not eliminate them. It is indestructible evidence 
that there is a Deity with power and intelligence 
above and beyond that possessed by human be¬ 
ings. Everything that goes to make up a living, 
active human being is dependent upon some 
source for its life power and intelligence to exist 
and fill his mission as a being. The material 
mind is dependent upon the soul mind for its in- 


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telligence. The human brain is not capable of 
producing a material mind, because it is inferior 
to the material mind. It is impossible for the 
brain to evolve something differing from it in 
nature and kind. The entire process of evolution 
occurring during the unfolding of the material 
mind in the brain is under the direct control of 
an intelligence superior to that possessed by man. 
The material mind of man is incapable of mani¬ 
festing the intelligence by which these things 
are accomplished. 

The power manifested by the material mind 
of a man is equal to the development of his brain. 
His brain is equal to his knowledge of things. 
When a man wills to know the whys and where¬ 
fores of a problem, when his desire becomes 
strong enough, he will apply his forces to that 
line of thought which creates within his brain an 
active process, which attracts a greater amount 
of circulation to that part of his brain to assist 
in the unfolding of that particular avenue in his 
brain. The tissue composing this avenue evolves 
by a process of vibration of the tissue which con¬ 
tinues until the avenue is fully developed. This 
places this avenue at the service of the soul mind 
through which; it transmits the solution of every 
problem along that line of work to your material 
mind. 

It is by the process of unfolding that you 


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prepare your brain for any line of work in which 
you become proficient. 

Select the line of work you wish to follow, if 
it appeals to you with that degree of interest that 
will cause the life force to go bounding through 
your entire being when you think of the wonder¬ 
ful things you would accomplish if you were cap¬ 
able of doing work of that nature. This is all 
the preparation necessary to begin the develop¬ 
ment of the brain to prepare you for the work 
you wish to perform. When you have prepared 
yourself in this way, you will have all the psychic 
influence necessary in accomplishing your pur¬ 
pose. Pursue your line of work with a full de¬ 
termination on your part and you will make good. 

Your soul mind will give you all the neces¬ 
sary assistance in preparing yourself to perform 
work of any nature that is honorable and upright. 
If you will trust your higher intelligence in pre¬ 
paring its part of the work, it will trust you with 
all of the wisdom and understanding that you 
are in need of to conduct any business for which 
you have the necessary preparations and will also 
assist you in all of your preparations. When you 
have this assistance at your command, there is 
no reason why you should not make good. Thou¬ 
sands of people are saying each day that they 
would do this or that, if they only knew whether 
they would succeed or not. If you wait until 
you can count the money that you will be able 


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to make in a business before you are willing to 
take the chance, you will never be able to make 
good. You m;ust learn to trust yourself. If you 
have the proper development of your brain, your 
soul mind will warn you against any danger in 
business, just the same as it does under any other 
circumstances. The quicker you learn this, the 
quicker you will be successful in your undertak¬ 
ings. 

When you learn this lesson and avail your¬ 
self of the wonderful assistance at your service 
and apply yourself to the scientific side of life, 
you will make good and will be a blessing to 
those around you in helping them to see and en¬ 
joy pleasures that come to them when the prin¬ 
ciples of Psychology are applied to their lives and 
actions. 

All the principles of Psychology, scientifical¬ 
ly applied, will elevate every human being. There 
is nothing of a psychic nature that does not car¬ 
ry with it an elevating influence. When you are 
dealing with psychology, you are dealing with 
that which emanates from the soul of man. Evil 
things emanate from the material mind and, un¬ 
less the soul mind overcomes them the entire life 
will be evil. The only redeeming thing about a 
human being is his soul. The soul mind will, if 
possible, arouse the material mind to act intelli¬ 
gently upon every proposition and, by doing so. 


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elevate the man to a different plane of life. We 
reach the higher planes by evolution. 

The soul mind of man is that which evolves 
within him- a nature and desire to become ele¬ 
vated until he reaches a plane where evil things 
have lost their control over him. When the in¬ 
tellectual nature in human beings has evolved to 
the point where it predominates the life of man, 
he is admitting that the psychic has led him. If 
the material nature predominates, he is deterior¬ 
ating instead of evolving. This evolution in man 
is governed by the soul mind. Every principle 
that will make him better emanates from the 
soul. With the principles governing man’s life 
emlanating from the soul man is elevated to a 
plane where justice and right predominates his 
entire being. A greater part of the human brain 
when developed, has an upward tendency and 
carries a greater influence for good and, if a per¬ 
son is normal, they will predominate his life. 

If this part of a man’s brain is fairly well de¬ 
veloped, it is possible for him to make good even 
though his environment is evil. A man’s sur¬ 
roundings usually are responsible for the kind of 
life he is living. However, we find some who, 
under adverse conditions, will be psychically in¬ 
clined, due perhaps, to some great trait of char¬ 
acter in their ancestors and will astonish their 
most intimate associates. People of this type are 
the ones who construct and maintain govern- 


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ments. Those who have refused to be limited 
by selfishness and greed and have fought for the 
inherent rights of humanity where we can have 
freedom and justice; where we can pursue our 
life’s work in sowing seeds of kindness; where 
the laborer who is capable of enlightening the 
travelers along life’s pathway with the uplifting 
principles which emanate from the Great Soul 
and still maintain his freedom of thought and 
bask in the sunshine of a nation of people whose 
minds are capable of evolving a standard of 
thinking and living greater than any other nation 
on the footstool of DEITY. 


Character Reading 

CHARACTER READING 

If you will apply yourself to a careful study 
of human nature you will be able to read people 
accurately and rapidly. You will be able to tell 
whether they are psychically inclined or not. 

A person who is governed psychically, will 
always meet you with a real smile, one that comes 
from deep down in his soul. 

There are several kinds of smiles and you 
must learn to detect the genuine from the coun¬ 
terfeit. We are justified in classifying them as 
good, bad and indifferent. You will find that the 
last two are greatly in the majority. 

A good smile comes from the one who is 
good from principle and will make a good psy¬ 
chologist. If you trust him, he will never de¬ 
ceive you. He will never ask you to trust him, 
unless he knows he will be able to make good. If 
he should trust you and you deceive him, he will 
always meet you with a smile, but do not ask him 
to trust you again, because he will tell you “no,” 
with a smjile. People of this nature will do for 
associates, because their smile will never rub off; 
it is printed by their soul mind. It is a rare oc¬ 
currence that you will get a chance to trust peo¬ 
ple of this nature. 

The indifferent smile asks no favors and 
grants none. This smile comes from a cold, 
hard heart. He will take your last penny even 
though you get nothing in return. They seldom 


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commit a crime that will endanger their freedom; 
when they do, they usually get out of it without 
having to pay the penalty that the crime de¬ 
mands. People who wear this smile usually 
have large secretiveness which enables them to 
get away with things that others would get 
caught in, because of their ability to hide it. They 
pose as being strictly honest, but when their price 
is available, they will take it, with or without the 
owners consent. They will betray their best 
friend if the price is great enough and smile 
while they are doing it. 

The bad smile is better known than the oth¬ 
er two.. It is used by demons called men who 
betray innocent and virtuous girls into bye and 
forbidden paths and leave them to repent in bit¬ 
ter tears, or perhaps they will continue to play 
the game, knowing that it would be useless to 
try to get people to believe that their intentions 
to live right were honest resolutions. They 1 ave 
the inherent right to do so and prove their sincer¬ 
ity by their daily life. 

Anger, hatred and revenge are portrayed in 
this smile. They do not take life seriously; they 
feel that they are able to hold their own in time 
of danger and will face it with a smile. It is 
well to avoid this smile wherever you find it, be¬ 
cause there is a demon behind it. I see this 
smile so often in people who are never suspected 
of being dangerous. The Supreme Court knows 


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no difference between legal and illegal murder. 
They must all pay the same penalty in the end. 
A person who is good through fear of the law is 
not worth much to his community. You must 
look well to this smile and do not let it get you. 

People who never smile are not in harmony 
with nature. There is something in their make¬ 
up that needs correcting. Perhaps it may have 
been caused by some influence of the mother dur¬ 
ing the embryonic period. If this is the cause, 
you will never be able to overcome it. 

You can read people as accurately by their 
smiles as you can in any other way. It will be 
an easy matter to detect the difference in the 
smiles by the lines they make on the face. 

The smiles of a person indicate the thoughts 
and intentions of the heart. This is just as true 
as the statement that “From the abundance of 
the heart, the mouth speaketh.” You can detect 
a criminal just as easy by his smile as you can in 
any other way. They may be able to hide some 
means of identification, but the smile remains the 
same and will follow them all the days of their 
life. It is just as much a part of them as their 
head and feet. You may forget faces and names 
and still recognize them by their smile. 

I have often heard people say, “I knew him 
when I saw him smile/’ Yet they were wholly 
unconscious of the true meaning of that smile. 
I could write pages along this interesting line of 


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thought, but I trust this is sufficient for our pre¬ 
sent purpose. 

You can read the nature and disposition of 
men by the way they put their hats on their head. 
They will always cover the part of the brain first 
that has the greatest development. If the ani¬ 
mal nature predominates his life, he will cover 
the back part of his brain first and then draw his 
hat forward over the front part of his brain. If 
his intellectual nature is the greatest he will cov¬ 
er the front part of his brain first. If he is stub¬ 
born and selfish and has a wonderful opinion of 
himself, he will pull his hat straight down with 
both hands. If he is in a hurry and will hardly 
take time to eat his meals, he will throw his hat 
on and perhaps arrange it later on. If he is fickle 
and cares only for pleasure and entertainment 
with no real purpose in life, he will put his hat on 
sideways and will sometimes wear it that way. 
If he will take money and property without the 
owner’s consent, he will put his hat on sideways 
with a decided tilt to the front. In a case of this 
kind, watch his eyes, for he is sure to cast them 
to the left as he puts his hat on. 

This alone proves that the brain fills an im¬ 
portant part in the study of Psychology. This is 
why I maintain that it is impossible to arrive at 
an understanding of the subject independent of 
the material parts of the human being. You 
must know your instrument before you are pre- 


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pared to read the psychic inprints indelibly writ¬ 
ten in the life and actions of every man and wo¬ 
man. 

The sitting posture of a person will give 
you a key to their inclination or determination re¬ 
lative to any proposition under discussion at any 
given time; by it, you can tell whether he is 
with you or against you; whether he will assist 
you in obtaining the facts in connection with an 
important case; whether he is open for conviction 
or whether he intends to make you work it out 
the best way you can. If his mind is made up as 
above stated, he will cross his legs and keep them 
crossed. That is a peculiar trait of the human 
mind that never varies. It will alway occur un¬ 
less he is watching himself to prevent it, and 
when you succeed in directing his attention away 
from himself he will involuntarily cross his legs if 
he is not willing to assist you. You may take a 
man in the courtroom and put him on the stand as 
a witness in an important case. It he crosses 
his legs on taking his seat, you can make up your 
mind that you will earn all you get out of him. 
He may tell you the truth, but he will not do so 
until you compel him to do it. You may take a 
man in the jury box. If his mind is mlade up and 
he believes the defendant is not guilty, watch 
him cross his legs when a witness testifies against 
him; watch him when the prosecuting attorney 


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is pleading for his conviction. If he continues to 
the end, watch for a verdict of “Not Guilty,” at 
least, that is the way he will vote. 

A man may change his mind sometimes. 
When he does, he will change his position also. I 
have had people ask me how I could guess what 
the verdict of a jury would be long before the 
case was ended. It is not a matter of guess 
work; it is done by being able to read human 
nature. 

A man will tell his own story just as his 
mind directs without saying a word and you can 
read it accurately, if you know the ways in which 
the mind influences the different parts of the 
body. If you are expecting some one to say 
something that you do not believe is true, or that 
you do not want to hear, you will unconsciously 
cross your legs. That act means that you are 
not open to conviction on the question. 

If a man comes to you confidentially and ask 
your advice about some important business, and, 
when you begin to tell him what you think is 
best, if he crosses his legs, you can make up your 
mind that it is a waste of time on your part to tell 
him anything; his mind is made up as to what he 
is going to do and he is trying to find out if you 
think the sam'e way that he does about it. If a 
man has no legs to cross, then you can watch his 
thumbs; when he closes his fingers over the 
thumb of the same hand, it means the same thing. 


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If he has both feet and hands, he may be more 
inclined to grasp his thumb than he is to cross 
his legs. They both mean the same thing. I 
have seen them do both many times. 

It is not a trait of good character for a per¬ 
son to. be constantly clasping the thumbs with 
his fingers. While crossing his legs continually 
indicates stubborness. When you find a person 
using both, you will also find the indifferent 
smile. It is really amusing how so many people 
get by for years when there are so many ways by 
which their life and inclinations are written, in a 
way so that every one who knows human nature, 
can read them like an open book. 

I have had thirty-five years experience in 
testing these traits of character and I am confi¬ 
dent that they are as accurate in their indications 
as the thermometer is in registering heat and 
cold. I understand that it takes longer to learn 
to read human nature, but it can be done. 

Perhaps you will never find a person wholly 
governed by any one trait of character, because 
there is always enough good in every one to 
blend their predominating inclination, at least to 
some extent, and there is always enough inclina¬ 
tion toward evil things in every one that their 
good deeds will be misunderstood. It is the pre¬ 
dominating traits of character that count for good 
or evil in every one. The bad good man and the 
good bad man is never worth very much to any 


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community. They will go through life on the 
reputation of some one else who, for some cause 
is able to command the respect of the public in 
general. 

If you will look straight at an object about 
one minute and then close your eyes, the object 
you were looking at will gradually develop, so 
you will be able to see it plainly. The colors in 
which the picture appears to you will give you the 
condition of your brain at that time. If the back¬ 
ground should blend from one color to another 
giving each color the same length of time you can 
rest assured that your brain is in splendid con¬ 
dition. If red predominates, your blood pressure 
is too high. If yellow holds the screen above the 
average, your nervous system is working over¬ 
time. If it continues dark too long the system 
is not eliminating the solids as it should. If ob¬ 
jects should begin to appear upon the screen, 
watch them closely; any object besides the one 
you were looking at before you closed your eyes 
will be thrown upon the screen by your soul 
mind. After you have prepared the screen by 
the process I have given you when the object you 
were looking at fades away, the soul mind takes 
charge of the screen and will show you things 
that have happened; things that are occurring at 
that time and things that are yet in the future. 
There is no past, present and future with the 
soul mind. It is all now with it. The soul mind 


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knows what is going to happen long before it 
occurs. 

The easiest way for you to get it, is to pre¬ 
pare the screen and watch what appears. Some¬ 
times it will work very rapidly so that you will 
not be able to remember what you have seen, but 
each time you will see enough to pay you well 
for your trouble. To some, it will appear in 
symbols. If it comes to you in that way you 
must learn the meaning of the symbols before 
you will be able to read accurately. After you 
become accustomed to reading in this way, ob¬ 
jects will begin to appear to you without the 
screen. A great majority of people know very 
little about how to do these things. Some are 
good, while few get to be very proficient. All 
could do more than they do, if they would try to 
develop themselves. 

We would all be glad to be able to foresee 
dangers that are ahead of us if we were able to 
avoid them. However, we are not always able 
to do so. I have been able to avoid a number of 
accidents by staying at home. I am sure I have 
been greatly benefited by heeding warnings com¬ 
ing in this way. I have lived these many years 
and have never been caught sleeping on the job. 
I have been awakened when I was sleeping 
soundly when danger was near. This occurred 
to me four times within thirty days in nineteen 
hundred and three. In two of these cases the 


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warning came just about one minute ahead of 
the danger. 

Your soul mind will warn you of all ap¬ 
proaching danger if you will heed it, but people 
go through life and pay no attention to the warn¬ 
ings. If you will prepare yourself so these 
things can come to you, they will help you many 
times when there is no danger in sight, yet it is 
just ahead of you and would otherwise come to 
you. 

In watching the objects on the screen, ob¬ 
serve how they come and go; if they pass from 
right to left, it indicates that you have a positive 
nature; if they go from left to right, your nature 
is negative. They seldom ever go up or down. 
If they should go up, you are apt to become very 
wealthy. If they go down, it is a bad sign; you 
should be careful or the “goblins” will get you. 

If you will look at a photograph of some one 
and close your eyes and are able to see the out¬ 
lines of the one in the photograph on the screen, 
what comes immediately following will be things 
that have happened or will happen in the life of 
that person. Let the objects come as they will. 
If you try to make something appear on the 
screen that you want to see, or, in other words, 
what you force to appear, will not be true. If it 
comes without an effort on your part, then it will 
come from your soul mind and will be true. 
What you formulate in your material mind may 


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be true or false. What comes from your soul 
mind is always true. If you will watch the ob¬ 
jects that appear on your screen without an effort 
on your part, you will get a true representation 
of the person you are reading. 

If you wish to locate some one whom yon 
have lost track of; if you have a photograph you 
can prepare your screen in the same manner as 
I have explained. By watching closely, you can 
trace him from his last known address to his 
present one. You will be able to tell where he is, 
if you will keep track of your directions. When 
I trace any one, I always take the opposite direc¬ 
tion from the way they seem to. travel. Every¬ 
thing always comes to me opposite to what they 
really are in reading. 

If you do not have a photograph of the one 
you want to trace, you can prepare your screen 
by closing your eyes and calling to mind their 
features. This will enable you to get started. Af¬ 
ter you get accustomed to reading in this way, 
objects will begin to come to you without closing 
your eyes. It is possible to see a thing almost 
instantly when mentioned by some one, if you are 
well developed psychically. Words cannot ex¬ 
press the wonderful things that have been accom¬ 
plished by Psychology. 

If you are successful in locating your friend 
by aid of the screen and you cannot get his cor¬ 
rect address, sit down and formulate a message 


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for him, asking him to write to you at once, then 
give it to your soul mind and ask it to deliver it 
to his soul mind with instruction that it be de¬ 
livered to his material mind by his soul mind. 
Your soul is in touch with his soul mind and will 
deliver the message as you direct it to be deliv¬ 
ered. It is not necessary for you to know where 
a person is to reach them in this way and they 
will write to you unless they are trying to keep 
their location a secret. Secrets are always lock¬ 
ed up in the soul mind of people. The only way 
you can get things of this nature, is to get it 
from your screen; in that way, you may be able 
to see hint in connection with any transaction, 
just as it occurred, but unless he wants you to 
know it, you will never get it from his soul mind. 
That is the only protection that he has and it 
will never betray him any time. 

Psychology can be used in this way to pro¬ 
tect people and their interests, but when you be¬ 
gin to use it for selfish purposes, you will find 
you are mistaken in the nature of the science. If 
you want to influence some one to do a thing that 
seems best to you, look well to his best interests 
before you do so; if he has nothing to lose by do¬ 
ing it, then proceed. A person who cannot be 
honest with himself, can never be a psychologist. 
He may think he is, but his own life and actions 
will give him away. When he really comes to 
himself, if he ever does, he will realize that he is 


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a long way from being a psychologist. It would 
be a waste of time to warn you against people 
who are dangerous by using psychology to satis¬ 
fy their animal desires. Do not let that worry 
you in the least. People of that nature never 
become psychologists. They are the lowest type 
of materialists. They are dangerous people, but 
they will never accomplish their purposes by the 
use of psychology. It is a protection to people 
to be able to read the intentions of those around 
them. I have seen the time when people would 
make you swear that you would not give certain 
things away for fear it might fall into the hands 
of some unscrupulous person who would use it in 
the wrong way. I have long since learned that 
there is no danger along that line. 

Psychology must become a part of you, be¬ 
fore you are able to apply its principles to any 
great extent. Morally speaking, you cannot use 
any kind of psychic influences to accomplish any¬ 
thing with the opposite sex that you cannot ac¬ 
complish without the use of it. You may put a 
virtuous woman to sleep by any psychic influ¬ 
ence and I can wake her up without even touch¬ 
ing her with my hands. I have done this until I 
absolutely know it cannot be done when they will 
not submit to it when they are awake. You may 
free your mind of all fear along that line of in¬ 
fluences. It would be well for you to watch peo¬ 
ple who make a practice of trying to influence 


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people. Never trust them too far, because there 
is a demon behind their smile. 

A good Psychologist will never take any un¬ 
due advantage of any one. If he should be mak¬ 
ing a deal of any nature with you, he will give 
you the same chance to protect yourself that he 
uses in his own behalf. He will never try to in¬ 
fluence you to make a deal that would please him 
and injure you, unless you were trying to put 
something over him. Perhaps in a case of that 
kind, he would meet you half way to protect his 
own interest. Every one has the inherent right 
to protect his own interest and demand a square 
deal from the other fellow. But all do not live 
and act upon this plane of life, so it behooves us 
to guard against the approach of those who have 
no other purpose than to satisfy their selfish de¬ 
sires. 

If you are able to prepare your screen and 
get the information you are looking for, remem¬ 
ber what you have been able to get is not public 
property and should never be treated as such; 
you should protect him just as you wish him to 
protect you. If you ever become proficient in 
getting information in this way, you will learn 
that you cannot use it promiscously. If you can¬ 
not keep a secret, you may rest assured that you 
will never be trusted with one. It is always best 
to protect yourself against any danger, regard¬ 
less of what others may want to know or what 


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they are willing to pay to obtain it. You must 
stay away from things of this nature if you value 
your future happiness worth anything. You may 
work to your heart’s content along this line and 
be able to get some very amusing things. If you 
cannot regard them strictly as a secret, you 
should proceed to forget them and feel and act as 
though you never knew them. If you will al¬ 
ways look for the good in people, you will find 
enough to amply pay you for your trouble. Let 
the other side of life alone, is the advice of your 
humble servant, who has had years of experience 
and knows where you will find pleasure and 
where you will find sorrow and heartaches. Per¬ 
haps you will have to learn this lesson by your 
own experience; if you do, you will find it like I 
have told you. We would never appreciate the 
bright side of life unless we knew the dark side. 

There are many other ways by which people 
may be read accurately. Some of them would 
require cuts of the positions to enable you to 
read them. Every part of a human being regis¬ 
ters some trait of his character. A close study 
of Psychology will enable you to read a person 
from a photograph and again you may read the 
writings of a person until you will be able to 
draw a picture of the writer, giving to it the 
traits of character portrayed in his writings. The 
soul mind that supplies the intelligence embod¬ 
ied in his writings, also governed the growth of 


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every part of his body and brain on which his na¬ 
ture and inclination of life are imprinted. There 
is no exception to this scientific rule. 

A person is limited in reading human nature 
by his material mind. His material mind is 
equal to the development of the avenues of his 
brain. These compose the instrument through 
which the soul mind operates. If the avenues of 
his brain were fully developed, he would be un¬ 
limited. He would be able to perform work of 
any nature. There is an avenue peculiarly adap¬ 
ted to every line of work in every one’s brain. 
The soul mind is limited only when operating 
through the avenues of the brain. The quickest 
way for you to prepare your brain to read human 
nature, is by preparing your screen as I have ex¬ 
plained to you. Your soul mind has all of the 
information you may desire, but it cannot give 
it to you until you prepare a channel through 
which it can transmit it to your material mind. 

If a m!an comes in contact with a live electric 
wire and the shock of the electric current proves 
fatal, you may say it was the electric current that 
did it, but if a man had hit him a blow with the 
same result, you would say that it was the man 
that did it, when in fact both men came in con¬ 
tact with the instrument through which the cur¬ 
rent and the soul operates, to-wit:—the wire and 
the man. You can remove the wire and the man, 
but you cannot destroy electricity and the souk. 


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By removing the current from the wire and the 
soul from the man, both would become abso¬ 
lutely harmless. The scientific laws that govern 
both emanate from the unlimited. If it were 
possible to suspend both laws, neither of them 
would exist. 

The eye is an important factor in the study 
of Psychology. With it we constantly observe 
the various types of humanity; we see the down¬ 
fall of people and nations; we see the battles of 
life as they are waged by the high and the low; 
the rich and the poor: we see the victory won to¬ 
day and lost tomorrow; we see the beautiful sun¬ 
shine as it brightens the pathway of life; we see 
the wonderful workings of nature that yield their 
untold blessings for man; we see in the storm 
clouds the wonderful electrical display of nature 
as it purifies the atmosphere which gives to us the 
life force which animates our bodies; we see the 
brittle thread of life broken and another soul pass¬ 
es beyond the great wall of thought; we see what 
occurs when the soul leaves the body; the psy¬ 
chic manifestations have ceased, the instrument 
has ceased to receive and transmit intelligence. 

How many times have your eyes proven the 
truthfulness of the above statement. Were it not 
for the eyes, many of the greatest blessings of 
life would escape us entirely; they are the win¬ 
dows of the soul; they speak volumes untold; 


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by them we gain knowledge and understanding 
that cannot be obtained otherwise. 

From the eyes of people we read the inner¬ 
most secrets of ther souls; they speak as never 
man spake; they are an open book in which is 
written the nature, life and inclinations of the 
one possessing them. 

You can look any living creature straight in 
the eye with no fear on your part, and they will 
wilt and try to avoid you. An animal fears the 
penetrating look of a human being because of 
the superior nature of man. You m^y take a per¬ 
son who is guilty of a crime; he may keep up a 
bold front for awhile, but he will shrink under 
the penetrating eye of an honest man. An in¬ 
nocent person has nothing to fear, but fear. 

The eyes have been the means of more hap¬ 
piness than any of the five senses; they have 
caused the downfall of more people than any of 
the other five senses. They can convey volumes 
of love and appreciation without words. It is 
beyond the power of words to express the influ¬ 
ence of the eyes; by them we see the wonderful 
results wrought by the proper application of psy¬ 
chic influences. Sometimes a kind look will 
change a world of dispair into happiness and con- 
tmtment; but remember, dear reader, that it is 
more blessed to give than to receive. 

I can read a person’s entire life by looking 
at the back of his hands and fingers. The nerves 


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that supply the fingers, have their origin in the 
brain near certain avenues. The development 
of those avenues will govern the development of 
the fingers. 

For instance, the nerve that supplies the in¬ 
dex finger has its origin in the brain near the ave¬ 
nue that governs home affairs; by it, you can tell 
whether a person cares for home or not; whether 
he will try to have the entire control around the 
house, regardless of what his wife thinks about 
it; and if the wife is blessed with the same trait of 
character, things would soon become very un¬ 
pleasant in that home and a separation would be 
the final result. It would take pages to tell all 
that could be said about this finger. All the oth¬ 
ers are just as interesting and indicate the nature 
and disposition of the owner with the same un¬ 
erring accuracy as the planets that surround this 
material universe. 

The fingers are correct indications as to the 
psychic nature of a person and the plane of life 
he is living on; the amount of will power the 
owner has; the extent of his education; his dispo¬ 
sition to be on the move all the time; if he is in¬ 
clined to criticize people; whether or not he is a 
hard man to deal with; if he is sick or healthy; if 
he would take money without the consent of the 
owner; whether or not he would hold up a train; 
if he would take the life of his fellowman, regard¬ 
less of the consequences; whether he could gov- 


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ern one or a thousand men successfully; if he 
would take the advice of friend or depend wholly 
upon his own judgment in business affairs; if he 
would gamble or take desperate chances where a 
great amount of wealth is involved; whether or 
not he would back his judgment with every dollar 
he had. 

All these and many other things too num¬ 
erous to mention here can be read from the back 
of the hand and fingers. Truly a human being is 
a wonderful study, and still there are thousands 
upon thousands of people who know very little 
about what they are. They are here because they 
have no other place to go. 


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